More Than Everything

My Voyage with the Gods of Love

Beatrix Ost (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2017
Turtle Point Press (Verlag)
978-1-933527-90-1 (ISBN)

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A proper young girl defies her privileged family and gambles everything—or more than everything—on love.

Beatrix Ost’s memoir of her artistic awakening and early marriage opens on the heels of Germany’s recovery from the self-imposed disasters of World War II. She is part of the new generation that dances disobediently in the bombed-out villas and underground jazz caverns of Munich. Beatrix rides the dynamic decade up through the world of art, fashion, and cinema into the revolution of politics and consciousness.

Before We Begin6

PART ONE8

The Sphere9
A tale of innocence

A Farewell18
Father’s dream of Africa

The Bird of Paradise Dress25
How a young former officer became our family’s familiar

My Sister Becomes a Beast40
Shoving a fiancé off to America

Hammer or Anvil49
A saffron dress, a marital blessing

PART TWO56

The Letter-Writer57
They never doubted my cleverness

Black and White70
Beauty causes a car accident

Coffeehouse Culture76
There I saw him for the first time

The Villa83
We became creatures of the demimonde

The Raft89
The infallible omnipotent finger into the future

Love98
A sandstorm of grandiose words

The Mother112
They were accomplices

Proper Lies119
Love is a powerful, moody god

The Song of Irresponsibility130
The listener falls for the storyteller

Chaos Takes Over Order 137
Robust reality holds the thread of happiness

Elixir of Personal Freedom145
The ampule in the desk drawer

Bob157
Probably even the sofa is pregnant

Sympathy for the Object of Contempt 164
A kind of Machiavellian footnote

Smoky Language of the Wind 172
She carries a knife of obsidian at her breast

PART THREE182

The Journey183
Mankind must sacrifice its treasures to the gods

Ciudad de Mexico193
Self-dramatization as an art form

Yo creo que es el198
She called him Ixtla Octli

The Black Bull 209
God of seduction, pain and plaisir

The Castillo226
Our wedding of Eros and Despair

What I Still Wanted to Say241

A Thank-You Note247

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2017
Zusatzinfo	B&W photographs and illustrations
Verlagsort	Chappaqua
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 190 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-933527-90-0 / 1933527900
ISBN-13	978-1-933527-90-1 / 9781933527901
Zustand	Neuware