Journey Through America

by Wolfgang Koeppen and Michael Kimmage

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, the text...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857452312
• ISBN13: 9780857452313
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"