| Youth Contributor(s): Koeppen, Wolfgang (Author), Hofmann, Michael (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1628970502 ISBN-13: 9781628970500 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2014016366 |
| Series: German Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.40 lbs) 140 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |