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Youth - A Novel
Wolfgang Koeppen
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Description for Youth - A Novel
Paperback. Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 184.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781628970500
SKU
V9781628970500
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About Wolfgang Koeppen
Wolfgang Koeppen's (1906-1996) The Hothouse was named one of the Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book. Michael Hofmann is a poet and frequent contributor to "The New York Times Book Review", and is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost translators of works from German to English. He lives in ... Read more
Reviews for Youth - A Novel
It is hard to think of a German writer of his generation who has written more sensitively or more profoundly about the Holocaust and its effects than Wolfgang Koeppen.
Ruth Franklin, New Republic This dazzlingly oblique late work explains and elaborates one man's personal odyssey and also that of a society inching towards atrocity.
Eileen Battersby The Irish ... Read more
Ruth Franklin, New Republic This dazzlingly oblique late work explains and elaborates one man's personal odyssey and also that of a society inching towards atrocity.
Eileen Battersby The Irish ... Read more