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Amerikafahrt by Wolfgang Koeppen is a masterpiece of observation, analysis, and writing, based on his 1958 trip to the United States. 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, mindful of the destiny of postwar Europe under many Americanizing influences.
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Amerikafahrt, Wolfgang Koeppen
- Language
- Released
- 1986
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
- Price
- €3.59
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- Title
- Amerikafahrt
- Language
- German
- Authors
- Wolfgang Koeppen
- Publisher
- Suhrkamp
- Released
- 1986
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 167
- ISBN10
- 3518373021
- ISBN13
- 9783518373026
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Travel
- Rating
- 4.7 out of 5
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- Amerikafahrt by Wolfgang Koeppen is a masterpiece of observation, analysis, and writing, based on his 1958 trip to the United States. 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, mindful of the destiny of postwar Europe under many Americanizing influences.