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- Author: Wolfgang Koeppen
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Pages: 104
- ISBN-10: 1628970502
- ISBN-13: 9781628970500
- Format: 13.5 x 21.3 x 1 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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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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- Author: Wolfgang Koeppen
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Pages: 104
- ISBN-10: 1628970502
- ISBN-13: 9781628970500
- Format: 13.5 x 21.3 x 1 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
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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