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Manès Sperber

マネス・スペルベル

Manesu Superuberu

Pen Names: Jan Hegerpseudonym, N.A. Menlospseudonym

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1905-12-12 (Zabłotów (now Zabolotiv, Ukraine))
Died
1984-02-05 (Paris) age 78
Nationality
Austrian, French
Languages
German, French
Religion
Judaism (Hasidic)
Residence History
Zabłotów (birthplace) → Vienna → Berlin → Yugoslavia → Paris → Cagnes → Switzerland → Paris (later years)

Career

Occupations
novelist, essayist, psychologist, editor
Active Years
1924-1984
Affiliations
Calmann-Lévy publishing house
Influenced By
Alfred Adler
Influenced
Siegfried Lenz

Awards

Remembrance Award from the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations
1967
Organization: World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations
Result: 受賞
Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
1971
Organization: Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
Result: 受賞
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
1971
Organization: Austrian Government
Result: 受賞
Hanseatic Goethe Prize
1973
Result: 受賞
Honorary doctorate from the Sorbonne
1973
Organization: Sorbonne
Result: 受賞
Literary Prize of the City of Vienna
1974
Organization: City of Vienna
Result: 受賞
Georg Büchner Prize
1975
Organization: Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
Result: 受賞
Franz Nabl Prize
1977
Result: 受賞
Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature
1977
Organization: Austrian Government
Result: 受賞
Prix Européen de l'essai Charles-Veillon
1979
Result: 受賞
Buber Rosenzweig Medal
1979
Result: 受賞
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels
1983
Organization: Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels
Result: 受賞
Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna
1983
Organization: City of Vienna
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Like a Tear in the Ocean: A Trilogy

1949 novel

A novel trilogy.

totalitarianism

Bibliography

  • Charlatan und seine Zeit
  • Alfred Adler
  • Zur Analyse der Tyrannis
  • Like a Tear in the Ocean: A Trilogy
  • The Wind and the Flame
  • Die Achillesferse
  • Zur täglichen Weltgeschichte
  • Alfred Adler oder Das Elend der Psychologie
  • Leben in dieser Zeit
  • Wir und Dostojewski
  • All Our Yesterdays (trilogy)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Philosophical and political insights in style
Recurring Motifs
totalitarianismindividual vs societyJewish experience

Legacy

A writer who tracked the ideological aberrations of the century and freed himself from them.

In Popular Culture

  • Manès Sperber Park in Vienna

Trivia

  • His brother Milo Sperber was a British actor.
  • Father of anthropologist Dan Sperber.