Alex Capus, geboren 1961 in der Normandie, lebt heute in Olten. Sein Roman “Léon und Louise” (2011) war ein Bestseller. Er übersetzte bereits sechs Romane von John Fante, unter anderem “Warten auf Wunder” und „1933 war ein schlimmes Jahr“. Mehr Informationen unter www.alexcapus.de
24 Ebooks by John Fante
John Fante: 1933 war ein schlimmes Jahr
‘Fante war mein Gott.’ Charles Bukowski.
Ein Kultautor und sein vergessener Roman werden wiederentdeckt. Erstmals kann die Geschichte des Dominic Molise in angemessener Übersetzung gelesen werden, …
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John Fante: Warten auf Wunder
Arturo Bandini, ein erfolgloser Schriftsteller, verdient sich seinen Lebensunterhalt als Hilfskellner. Doch als überraschend eine seiner Erzählungen von einer Zeitschrift angenommen wird, beginnt …
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John Fante: Warte bis zum Frühling, Bandini
Die Weihnachtszeit in Rocklin, Colorado, gerät bei den Bandinis, italienischen Einwanderern in ärmlichen Verhältnissen, zur großen Krise. Svevo, der Vater des jungen Arturo Bandini, verliebt sich in …
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John Fante: Frag den Staub
Schöne Frauen und schneller Ruhm: Das ist es, was den jungen Schriftsteller Arturo Bandini interessiert. Nur geht es mit beidem nicht so recht voran. Er zieht deshalb von Boulder (Colorado) nach Los …
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John Fante: Der Weg nach Los Angeles
»John Fantes Romane gehören zum Besten, was die amerikanische Literatur je hervorgebracht hat.« Charles Bukowski
50 Jahre nach seinem Tod erschien Fantes erster Roman um sein Alter Ego Arturo …
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John Fante: Arturo Bandini
»Fante war mein Gott.« Charles Bukowski.
Die Bandini-Romane sind das opus magnum von John Fante, dem großen, erst kürzlich weltweit triumphal wiederentdeckten Outsider der amerikanischen Literatur. …
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John Fante: 1933 Was A Bad Year
Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, under pressure from his father to go into the family business, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfill his own …
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John Fante: Ask the Dust
Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the …
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John Fante: Big Hunger
Published here for the first time, this text presents a collection of recently-discovered stories by John …
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John Fante: Brotherhood of the Grape
Henry Molise, a 50 year old, successful writer, returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his aging parents want to divorce. Henry’s tyrannical, brick laying father, Nick, though weak …
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John Fante: Dreams from Bunker Hill
My first collision with fame was hardly memorable. I was a busboy at Marx’s Deli. The year was 1934. The place was Third and Hill, Los Angeles. I was twenty-one years old, living in a world bounded …
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John Fante: Full of Life
In the definitive biography of John Fante, English and film studies professor Stephen Cooper explores the life of a man whose muse was Los …
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John Fante: John Fante Selected Letters 1932-1981
Fante’s captivating letters trace his emergence from poverty to life as a Hollywood screenwriter. Complemented by many photos and interesting appendices, the book is most distinguished by Fante’s …
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John Fante: Road to Los Angeles
I had a lot of jobs in Los Angeles Harbor because our family was poor and my father was dead. My first job was ditchdigging a short time after I graduated from high school. Every night I couldnt …
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John Fante: Wait Until Spring, Bandini
He came along, kicking the snow. Here was a disgusted man. His name was Svevo Bandini, and he lived three blocks down that street. He was cold and there were holes in his shoes. That morning he had …
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John Fante: West of Rome
West of Rome’s two novellas, "My Dog Stupid" and "The Orgy, " fulfill the promise of their rousing titles. The latter novella opens with virtuoso description: "His name was …
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John Fante: Wine of Youth
This new edition of the legendary Dago Red, first published in 1940, contains seven new stories, including "A Nun No More" and "My Fathers …
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Stephen Cooper & John Fante: John Fante Reader
It’s not every day that a writer, almost unheard of in his lifetime, emerges twenty years after his death as a voice of his generation. But then again, there aren’t many writers with such …
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John Fante: The Bandini Quartet
Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante”s crowning …
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John Fante: 1933 Was A Bad Year
John Fante is a lost gem of American literature and the man who was credited by Charles Bukowski as the inspiration for him to start writing. In a life that spanned 74 years, Fante wrote several …
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John Fante: Brotherhood Of The Grape
Henry Molise, a fifty-year-old successful writer, returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his elderly parents want to divorce. Henry”s tyrannical, bricklaying father, Nick, despite …
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€9.93
John Fante: Full of Life
‘;The world’s bleakest romantic comedy’ Los Angeles Times
An exuberant, extravagant chronicle of gestation which romps through to the final production of the Fantes firstborn in high Italianate sty …
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Stephen Cooper & Clorinda Donato: John Fante’s Ask the Dust
This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante’s 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work’s present and future impact. Th …
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Stephen Cooper & Clorinda Donato: John Fante’s Ask the Dust
This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante’s 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work’s present and future impact. Th …
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