Journey Through America Contributor(s): Koeppen, Wolfgang (Author), Kimmage, Michael (Author) |
|
ISBN: 0857452312 ISBN-13: 9780857452313 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - History | Social History |
Dewey: 973.91 |
LCCN: 2012001647 |
Series: Transatlantic Perspectives |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.88 lbs) 172 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 German audience and mindful of the destiny of postwar Europe under many Americanizing influences. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kimmage, Michael: - Michael Kimmage is an Associate Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of two books: The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (Harvard University Press, 2009) and In History's Grip: Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy (Stanford University Press, 2012). Koeppen, Wolfgang: -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). |