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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.
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Youth, Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2014
- Rilegatura
- (In brossura)
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- Titolo
- Youth
- Sottotitolo
- A Novel
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann
- Editore
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Pubblicato
- 2014
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 104
- ISBN10
- 1628970502
- ISBN13
- 9781628970500
- Serie
- Titolo originale
- Jugend
- Valutazione
- 3,7 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.