Youth Autobiographical Writings (German Literature Series) by WolfgangKoeppen, Michael Hofmann Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62897-050-0, ISBN: 1-62897-050-2 "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 kin ..."
Journey Through America(1st Edition) (Transatlantic Perspectives) by WolfgangKoeppen, Michael Kimmage, Alex J. Kay Hardcover, 172 Pages, Published 2012 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85745-231-3, ISBN: 0-85745-231-2 " Amerikafahrt by Wolfgang Koeppen is a masterpiece of observation, analysis, and writing, based on his 1958 trip to the United States. A major twentieth-century German writer, 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 ..."
Death in Rome(Reprint) by WolfgangKoeppen, Michael Hofmann Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32194-4, ISBN: 0-393-32194-0 "A prophetic novel that ranks with The Tin Drum and W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants as one of the essential works of contemporary European fiction. Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome, in the words of translator Michael Hofmann, "is a comprehensive and brilliant provocation of an entire nation." First published in 1954 to great controversy, it is only now being recognized as a classic. A tragic portrait of Germany after World War II, Death in ..."
Pigeons on the Grass(Reissue) by WolfgangKoeppen, Michael Hofmann Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2020 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2918-0, ISBN: 0-8112-2918-1 "Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar masterpiece in a luminous new translation by the poet Michael HofmannPigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one looks up), newspaper headlines announce war over oil and atomic bomb tests. Odysseus Cotton, a black man, alights at the ..."
Death in Rome(Updated) (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by WolfgangKoeppen, Translator-Michael Hofmann, Michael Hoffman Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1995 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-018790-8, ISBN: 0-14-018790-1 "Four members of a German family are reunited by chance in the decaying beauty of post-war Rome. These different men, mutually antagonistic and fearful, learn of one another's presence in Rome and meet, their often chilling histories unfolding through a variety of literary styles and voices."
The Hothouse(Reprint) A Novel by WolfgangKoeppen, Michael Hofmann Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 2002 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32326-9, ISBN: 0-393-32326-9 ""A recovered masterpiece. . . . Remarkable as a sidelong, searing appraisal of the legacy of the Nazi years."? Publishers Weekly, starred review A masterpiece by a writer long neglected in America, The Hothouse created a literary stir when it appeared in hardcover. Evoking comparisons to works by James Joyce and Malcolm Lowry, it traces the final two days in the life of a minor German politician, Keetenheuve, a man disillusioned by the ..."
Pigeons on the Grass(Reprint) (Portico Paperbacks Series) by WolfgangKoeppen, David Ward Paperback, 202 Pages, Published 1991 by Holmes & Meier Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8419-1291-5, ISBN: 0-8419-1291-2 "Jack might bring him along, he ought to get acquainted with Hanschen, it really
would be nice!" Emilia cringed when Messalina called her Emilychild, she hated
it when Messalina mentioned Philipp, all Messalina's comments injured and
embarrassed her, but since she saw in Alexander's wife, in this woman all made
up like a demon with the body of a wrestler, one enormous piece of shit from
whom there was no escape, a vast and violent l ..."
A Sad Affair by WolfgangKoeppen, Michael Hofmann Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2003 by Granta Books ISBN-13: 978-1-86207-601-3, ISBN: 1-86207-601-4 "Set during the heady, pre-Second World War days of cabaret-era Germany, the novel centres on Sibylle - a stunning seductress who balances her love affairs with five men at once - and Friedrich, the callow, melancholic youth who obsessively pursues her. Originally banned by the Nazis for its frank sexual themes, Wolfgang Koeppen's first novel is appearing in English. A romance that anticipated Beat literature by nearly twenty years throu ..."
Death in Rome(Updated) by WolfgangKoeppen, Michael Hofmann Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2004 by Granta Books ISBN-13: 978-1-86207-589-4, ISBN: 1-86207-589-1 "In Rome, four members of a German family are reunited by chance. A young composer, Siegfried; his estranged father, Freidrich, who held office under the Nazis and is once more making his way in public life, this time as a democratically elected buromaster; Siegfried's uncle, Judejahn, a unrepentant former SS general; and Judejahn's renegade son, Adolf, who is preparing himself for a Catholic priesthood. The four men recount their separa ..."
The Hothouse by WolfgangKoeppen, Michael Hofmann Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2004 by Granta Books ISBN-13: 978-1-86207-564-1, ISBN: 1-86207-564-6 "The Hothouse refers to the city of Bonn, with its warm damp climate, but it also refers to the political environment of the temporary capital of divided Germany, where politics in the 1950s was about compromises and half measures. The central character, Keetenheuve, is an idealistic politician-intellectual who has returned from voluntary exile during the Nazi period. Now his idealism becomes a trap for him, as he attempts to break with ..."
Youth Autobiographical Writings (German Literature Series) by WolfgangKoeppen, Michael Hofmann Digital, 140 Pages, Published 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62897-051-7, ISBN: 1-62897-051-0
Transatlantic Perspectives Journey Through America 1 by WolfgangKoeppen, Michael Kimmage 172 Pages, Published 2012 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85745-437-9, ISBN: 0-85745-437-4 "... then came the Green River, and the powerful Colorado Valley was around us,
towering over us, building itself up over us, as we ... sway in the air over the river,
whose water was forever time- less, pre-historic, a friend only to the adventurer,
the red stones ... the book Koeppen saw on the train is Ruth Cranston's The
Miracle ofLourdes (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955). Luise Rinser (1911–2002)
was a German writer who published D ..."
Scorched(Reprint) by Penguin Books Staff, WolfgangKoeppen Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 2004 by Penguin Group Australia Import ISBN-13: 978-0-14-300230-7, ISBN: 0-14-300230-9 "From Australia's hottest talents, this dazzling collection of stories will make you think of icy-poles, holidays at the beach, thrumming cicadas, New Year's resolutions, water restrictions and scorching heat. Here too are tales of sudden death, abandonment, abduction, betrayal, family feuds, and murder."
Pigeons on the Grass(1st Edition) by WolfgangKoeppen Hardcover, 202 Pages, Published 1988 by Holmes & Meier Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8419-1163-5, ISBN: 0-8419-1163-0 "Here is an English translation of a post-war German classic. The events of the novel take place during the course of a single day in an unnamed city in occupied Germany where the endless drone of allied planes overhead increases the already heightened tension. Throughout this powerful narrative, the characters' experiences ultimately reveal how and at what cost Germans in the 1950s, by failing to confront their recent past, blinded them ..."
The Hothouse(1st Edition) A Novel by WolfgangKoeppen, Michael Hofmann Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2001 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04902-2, ISBN: 0-393-04902-7 "Ranicki, has filled a short book with his encomia on Koeppen; Siegfried Unseld,
the head of Suhrkamp, first acquired, ... And yet, in spite of that, both within
Germany and internationally, Koeppen has remained a marginal figure, one for
the few ..."
Die elenden Skribenten Aufsätze. Hrsg. von Marcel Reich-Ranicki / Suhrkamp Taschenbuch ; 1008 by WolfgangKoeppen, Marcel Reich-Ranicki Paperback, 315 Pages, Published 2006 by Suhrkamp Verlag Ag ISBN-13: 978-3-518-37508-2, ISBN: 3-518-37508-3
