Journey Through America
Amerikafahrt by Wolfgang Koeppen is a masterpiece of observation, analysis, and writing, based on his 1958 trip to the United States. A major twentieth-century German writer, Koeppen presents a vivid and fascinating portrait of the US in the late 1950s: its major cities, its literary culture, its troubled race relations, its multi-culturalism and its vast loneliness, a motif drawn, in part, from Kafka's Amerika. A modernist travelogue, the text employs symbol, myth, and image, as if Koeppen sought to answer de Tocqueville's questions in the manner of Joyce and Kafka. Journey through America is also a meditation on America, intended for a Ger…
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Weitere Autoren: Kimmage, Michael
- ISBN: 978-0-85745-437-9
- EAN: 9780857454379
- Produktnummer: 20453480
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 172 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 804 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Reihenbandnummer: 1
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Wolfgang Koeppen (1906-1996) is one of the best known German authors of the postwar period. His most acclaimed novels are Pigeons on the Grass (1951), The Hothouse (1953), and Death in Rome (1954).
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