Book Series: All for Nothing

All for Nothing

By Walter Kempowski

All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.

... MÁRQUEZ Clandestine in Chile : The Adventures of Miguel Littín LEONARD GARDNER Fat City * WILLIAM H. GASS In the Heart of the Heart of the Country : And Other Stories * THEOPHILE GAUTIER My Fantoms GE FEI The Invisibility Cloak JEAN ...

All for Nothing: Hamlet's Negativity

By Andrew Cutrofello

For this, Athena's intervention is necessary. To break the cycle of retribution to which Orestes's crime belongs, Athena must placate the unleashed Erinyes. Just as, for Nietzsche's Zarathustra, the destructive act of the lion must be ...

All for Nothing

By Walter Kempowski

Profoundly evocative of the period, sympathetic yet painfully honest about the motivations of its characters, All for Nothing is a devastating portrait of the complicities and denials of the German people as the Third Reich comes to an end.

All for Nothing: Hamlet's Negativity

By Andrew Cutrofello

Along the way, we meet Hamlet in the texts of Kant, Coleridge, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Russell, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Benjamin, Arendt, Schmitt, Lacan, Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida, Badiou, Žižek, and ...