Youth
A Novel
Wolfgang Koeppen is the most important German novelist of the past seventy years: a radical, not to say terrifying, stylist; a caustic, jet-black comedian; a bitter prophet. His late, autobiographical work--the short, intense autofiction, Youth, translated here for the first time--is a portrait of the little north German town of Greifswald before World War I, and is a miracle of compression: this is not historical fiction, but a kind of personal apocalypse. Also included here, in Michael Hofmann's brilliant translation, is one of Koeppen's very last works: a short, fragmentary text spoken over a 1990 German television program depicting his re…
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Weitere Autoren: Hofmann, Michael (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-62897-050-0
- EAN: 9781628970500
- Produktnummer: 16450640
- Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 140 S.
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Wolfgang Koeppen's (1906-1996) The Hothouse was named one of the Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book.
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