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The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the landmark biography that tells the full-scale, riveting, and untold story of Marlene Dietrich. Wildly entertaining, Maria Riva reveals the rich life of her mother in vivid detail, evoking Dietrich the woman, her legendary career, and her world. Opening with Dietrich's childhood in Berlin, we meet an energetic, disciplined, and ambitious young actress, whose own mother equated the stage with a world of vagabonds and thieves. Dietrich would quickly rise to stardom on the Berlin stage in the 1920s with her sharp wit and bisexuality-wearing the top hat and tails that revolutionized our concept of beauty and femininity. She would play vulgarity but not become in; startle the world but still maintain the aloofness of an aristocrat. As Riva herself remembers, "At age three, I knew quite definitely that I didn't have a mother, I belonged to a queen." Marlene Dietrich comes alive in these pages in all of her incarnations: as muse, artistic collaborator, bonafide movie star, box-office poison, lover, wife, and mother. Dietrich would stand up to the Nazis and galvanize American troops, eventually earning the Congressional Medal of Freedom. There were her rich artistic relationships with Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel, Morocco, Shanghai Express), Colette, Erich Maria Remarque, Noël Coward and Cole Porter, and her heady romances. In her final years, she would make herself visibly invisible, devoting herself to the immortality of her legend. Maria Riva's biography of her mother has the depth, range, and resonance of a novel and captures the conviction and passion of its remarkable subject.

National Bestseller A New York Times Best Book of the Twenty-First Century The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. The explosive first long work by "the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times), The Savage Detectives follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foulmouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and random acquaintances. A polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bolaño traces the hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde. The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.

Frontmatter -- INHALT -- I. AUFSÄTZE -- Das Verhältnis von Volkslied und Modelied im deutschen Volksgesang -- Das Gruppenlied als Gegenstand -- Adam Reißners handschriftliches Gesangbuch von 1554 als Quelle deutscher Volksliedweisen des 16. Jahrhunderts -- Die Brautwerbungs-, Meererin- und Südeli-Volksballaden und das Kudrun-Epos von 1233 -- Weltliches im Wienhäuser Liederbuch1 -- Volksballade, Sage und Exempel Zur Stoff- und Überlieferungsgeschichte der Volkserzählung vom „beleidigten Totenschädel -- Philologie et Folklore Musical. Les Chants de Pâtres avant leur Émergence Folklorique -- Ach Gott, wem soll ich's klagen -- II. BERICHTE -- Die Erforschung der ungarischen Volksballaden in Rumänien -- Die seit 1945 erschienene deutschsprachige Literatur zum Jazz -- III. BESPRECHUNGEN -- SUPPAN, W.: Volkslied, Stuttgart 1966 -- SEEMANN, H.: Volkslied und Urheberrecht, Freiburg 1965 -- LIPPHARDT, W.: Der Karolingische Tonar von Metz, Münster i. W. 1965 -- KLÜSEN, E.: Das Bonner Gesangbuch von 1550 -- SPERONTES: Die Singende Muse an der Pleiße, Leipzig 1964 -- LEFFTZ, J.: Das Volkslied im Elsaß Bd. 1, Colmar 1966 -- Kärntens Volksliedschatz II/l: Balladen — Romanzen — Erzählende Lieder, Klagenfurt 1966 -- KLÜSEN, E.: Das Mühlrad, Kempen 1966 -- MARTIN, B.: Alte Lieder aus dem Hinterland, Biedenkopf 1964 -- HEIMAT GALIZIEN. Ein Gedenkbuch, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1965 -- GÄRTNER, J.: Heiligenbluter Sternsinger-Lieder, Klagenfurt 1965 -- KAMPMULLER, O.: Oberösterreichische Kinderspiele, Linz 1965 -- ELBERS, W.: Das Soldatenlied als publizistische Erscheinung, Münster i. W. 1963 -- HOERBURGER, F.: Musica vulgaris, Erlangen 1966 -- DANCKERT, W.: Das Volkslied im Abendland, Bern und München 1966 -- JAHRBUCH FÜR MUSIKALISCHE VOLKS- UND VÖLKERKUNDE Bd. 2, Berlin 1966 -- SONG. Zeitschrift für Chanson, Folklore, Bänkelsang Nr. 1, Erlangen 1966 -- NETTL, B.: Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents, Englewood Cliffs 1965 -- HET LIEDBOEKJE VAN MARIGEN REMEN, Utrecht 1966 -- THE FABER BOOKS OF BALLADS, London 1965 -- MUIR, W.: Living With Ballads, London 1965 -- LEACH, M.: Folk Ballads and Songs of the Lower Labrador Coast, Ottawa 1965 -- LEHMANN, Th.: Negro Spirituals, Witten und Berlin 1965 -- DANMARKS GAMLE FOLKEVISER. Prevesider af Optrykket, Kobenhavn 1966—67 -- PROFETA, G.: Canti nuziali nel folklore italiano, Firenze 1965 -- CIRESE, A.M.: Struttura e origine morfologica dei mutos e dei mutettus sardi, Cagliari 1964 -- BRONZINI, G.: Il mito della poesia popolare, Roma 1966 -- VOLKSMUSIK SÜDOSTEUROPAS. Beiträge zur Volkskunde und Musikwissenschaft, München 1966 -- BARTÓK, B.: Slovenské l'udove piesne, Bratislava 1959 -- HUDEC, K. — POLOCZEK, F.: Slovenské l'udove piesne Bd. I—IV, Bratislava 1952—1964 -- ERDELY, St.: Methods and Principles of Hungarian Ethnomusicology, Bloomington 1965 -- FOCHI, A.: Miorita. Tipologie, circulatie, genezä, texte, Bucurefti 1964 -- ALEXICI, G.: Texte din literatura poporanä romàna Bd. II, Bucurejti 1966 -- VRABIE, Gh.: Baiada popularä romana, Bucure§ti 1966 -- HORÄK, J. und PLICKA, K. : Zbojnicke piesne slovenského l'udu, Bratislava 1965 -- MUZYKA HUCULSZCZYZNY, Krakow 1965 -- GRAFENAUER, I.: Spokorjeni gresnik, Ljubljana 1965 -- GRAFENAUER, I.: Slovensko-hrvaska ljudska pesem Marija in brodnik, Ljubljana 1966 -- MERŠI?, M.: Jackar. Hrvatske narodne jacke iz Gradisca, Cakovec 1964 -- DOBROVICH, J.: Druga pjesmarica. Narodne jacke gradiscanskih Hrvatov, Stikapron 1964 -- PEŠI?, R.: Novije crnogorske narodne pjesme, Titograd 1964 -- VASILJEVIC, M. A.: Narodne melodije Crne gore, Beograd 1965 -- WERNER, W.: Die männlichen Personennamen in den bulgarischen Volksliedern, Berlin 1965 -- STOCKMANN, D., FIEDLER, W., STOCKMANN, E.: Albanische Volksmusik, Berlin 1965 -- CHI ANIS, S.: Folk Songs of Mantineia, Greece, Berkeley und Los Angeles 1965 -- VERZEICHNIS DER MITARBEITER -- Backmatter