The Father of a Murderer
The Father of a Murderer takes place in a classroom of the Wittelsbach Gymnasium in 1920s Munich over the course of a single Greek lesson. Head-master Himmler (the father of Heinrich Himmler) enters the classroom, apparently to observe the students' progress. However, he soon takes over the lesson himself. Himmler mercilessly tests the boys, but his real purpose is to teach a political lesson to the German youths, and through them to settle accounts with their fathers. In the venerable tradition of German school novels (Musil's Young Torless and Heinrich Mann's Professor Garbage), this tale can be read as an account of routine academic sadism…
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Weitere Autoren: Vennewitz, Leila (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1762-0
- EAN: 9780811217620
- Produktnummer: 3784064
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 112 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.4 cm 137 g
- Gewicht: 137
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