Youth

by Wolfgang Koeppen and Unknown

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628970502
• ISBN13: 9781628970500
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.4"