THE DAY, CLOUD-VEILED AND COOL - Great Diaries from Samuel Pepys to Virginia Woolf

  • Selection of the most remarkable, powerful, and beautiful findings: from Christopher Columbus's private logbook to Thomas Mann’s laconic everyday notes.
  • A deeply enjoyable and enlightening journey that will primarily ignite one desire: the impulse to grab those diaries that Maar makes so utterly irresistible.

The Art and Literature of the Diary.

To organize thoughts and experiences, to hold a dialogue with oneself, to bear witness, or to capture the fleeting moments in the stream of time: there are many good reasons to keep a diary.
And there are just as many good reasons to read the diaries of others. They offer insight into the inner lives of their authors, showcase their daily routines and their world, allowing the poetry of the incidental or the great currents of history in miniature to shine through. One could also simply say: in their best moments, they are significant literature.

Michael Maar traverses entire libraries of diary literature across centuries—and assembles the most remarkable, powerful, and beautiful findings: from Christopher Columbus's private logbook and the confessions of the British chronicler Samuel Pepys, to Thomas Mann’s laconic everyday notes and Arthur Schnitzler’s dream diaries, all the way to Rainald Goetz’s internet diary Abfall für alle and Wolfgang Herrndorf’s blog Arbeit und Struktur.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 14.11.2023
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-01417-8
  • 256 Pages
  • Author: Michael Maar

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Michael Maar

Michael Maar , born in 1960, is a Germanist, author and literary critic. He gained recognition with his work  Geister und Kunst. Neuigkeiten aus dem Zauberberg (1995), for which he received the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize. In 2002 he was accepted by the German Academy for Language and Literature, in 2008 by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, and in 2010 he was awarded the Heinrich Mann Prize. Die Schlange im Wolfspelz was a Spiegel bestseller. Michael Maar has two children and lives in Berlin.