A Life in the Making
Published on 28. January 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-78227-685-2 (ISBN)
Description
Over the 29 years of his short life, Franz Michael Felder worked with furious productivity to better himself and the lives of those around him. From his humble origins in the Austrian village of Schoppernau, he went on to found workers' cooperatives, a political party and even a public library in his own home, while also writing many literary works.
A Life in the Making is both the culmination of this extraordinary career and a chronicle of its development. It is a story of early hardship and fortitude, of Felder's relentless zeal for learning and his lifelong effort to reconcile his own expanding horizons with the enforced confines of the community he was born to. Unfolding in prose of limpid beauty, A Life in the Making becomes a deeply moving tribute to Felder's wife Nanni, and to his enduring belief in the possibility of a better world.
A Life in the Making is both the culmination of this extraordinary career and a chronicle of its development. It is a story of early hardship and fortitude, of Felder's relentless zeal for learning and his lifelong effort to reconcile his own expanding horizons with the enforced confines of the community he was born to. Unfolding in prose of limpid beauty, A Life in the Making becomes a deeply moving tribute to Felder's wife Nanni, and to his enduring belief in the possibility of a better world.
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Franz Michael Felder has left us something which will always remain both as a record and as a work of art -- Arno Geiger A Life in the Making is one of those books exhumed from oblivion that reveal themselves to be blessed with a strange power... The 21st-century reader will never forget this friend from Schoppernau * Le Matricule des Anges * One of the masterpieces of 19th-century German literature * Politis * This was not the work of an artist thinking up a plot; he wrote as a person directly involved, and that is intensely moving for the reader of these memoirs * Die Presse am Sontag * heart-warmingly powerful language * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78227-685-2 (9781782276852)
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Franz Michael Felder (1839-1869) was born to a farming family in Schoppernau, Austria. Over the course of his short life, he created a towering legacy as a writer and social reformer. Felder was one of the first Austrian writers to document the farming life he was born to, and he earned a reputation as a rebel through his socially critical writing and work in politics and agricultural reform. He began to write his masterpiece, A Life in the Making, shortly after the death of his beloved wife Nanni, and Felder himself died only months after finishing it.