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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Youth - A Novel
• Author: Wolfgang Koeppen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140
• EAN: 9781628970500
• ISBN: 1628970502
• ID: 04841085
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Weight: 184 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 141 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 2015

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