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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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Youth, Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann
- Language
- Released
- 2014
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Youth
- Subtitle
- A Novel
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 104
- ISBN10
- 1628970502
- ISBN13
- 9781628970500
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, German Literature
- Original title
- Jugend
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- 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.