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Odon Von Horvath

Youth Without God

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Written in exile while in flight from the Nazis, this dark, bizarre evocation of everyday life under fascism is available for the first time in thirty years. This last book by Ödön von Horváth, one of the 20th-century's great but forgotten writers, is a dark fable about guilt, fate, and the individual conscience.An unnamed narrator in an unnamed country is a schoolteacher with a safe job with a pension at the end of it. But, when he reprimands a student for a racist comment, he is accused of sabotage of the Fatherland, and his students revolt. A murder follows, and the teacher must face his role in it, even if it costs him everything. Horvá… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Thomas, R. Wills / Schillinger, Liesl
  • ISBN: 978-1-61219-119-5
  • EAN: 9781612191195
  • Produktnummer: 19432922
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 176 S.
  • Masse: H20.4 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.2 cm 182 g
  • Gewicht: 182

Über den Autor


Ödön von Horváth (1901-1939) is best known for his important plays, including Tales of the Vienna Woods, and for his novel, The Eternal Philistine. Born in Austria, he fled the Nazis to Paris, where he died when a tree limb struck by lightning hit him as he walked down the Champs-Elysee.Liesl Schillinger is a literary critic, translator, and regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Washington Post, New York, Vogue, and elsewhere. Her most recent translation from the German is the novel Every Day, Every Hour, by Nataša Dragnic.

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