Youth
Autor: | Koeppen, Wolfgang |
---|---|
EAN: | 9781628970500 |
Sachgruppe: | Belletristik |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 140 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 18.11.2014 |
Schlagworte: | Fiction - General |
15,50 €*
Die Verfügbarkeit wird nach ihrer Bestellung bei uns geprüft.
Bücher sind in der Regel innerhalb von 1-2 Werktagen abholbereit.
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 return visit to the town of his schooldays.