Ulrich Plenzdorf

The New Sorrows of Young W

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Edgar W., teenage dropout, unrequited lover, unrecognized genius - and dead - tells the story of his brief, spectacular life. It is the story of how he rebels against the petty rules of communist East Germany to live in an abandoned summer house, with just a tape recorder and a battered copy of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther for company. Of his passionate love for the dark-eyed, unattainable kindergarten teacher Charlie. And of how, in a series of calamitous events (involving electricity and a spray paint machine), he meets his untimely end. Absurd, funny and touching, this cult German bestseller, now in a new translation, is both a sa… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Fursland, Romy (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-78227-113-0
EAN: 9781782271130
Produktnummer: 18090184
Verlag: Pushkin Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 137 KB

Über den Autor

Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934-2007) was an award-winning German author and dramatist. Born in Berlin, he studied Philosophy and Film in Leipzig, achieving fame in the early 1970s with The New Sorrows of Young W. From 2004 onwards, Plenzdorf was a guest lecturer at the German Institute of Literature in Leipzig. He died aged 72 of undisclosed causes.Translated from the German by Romy Fursland.