The Selected Stories Of Siegfried Lenz
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The Selected Stories of Siegfried Lenz
Author | : Siegfried Lenz |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811211053 |
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Siegfried Lenz is one of Germany's foremost writers, ranking in popularity as well as critical esteem with Gunter Grass and Heinrich Boell. He is considered one of the best short story writers of the post-war generation. These twenty-six stories make up the first comprehensive collection of his short works to appear in English.
The German Lesson
Author | : Siegfried Lenz |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811222266 |
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In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the “The Joys of Duty.” Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, a constable, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist artist from painting and to seize all his “degenerate” work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. “I was trying to find out,” Lenz says, “where the joys of duty could lead a people.” Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins
An Exemplary Life
Author | : Siegfried Lenz |
Publsiher | : Harvill Secker |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105011841538 |
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Letters to Emil
Author | : Henry Miller,Emil Schnellock |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0811211703 |
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Henry Miller's letters to Emil contain a compelling record of this writer in the making, beginning with his first efforts in 1922, tracing his ten-year struggle to find his own voice, and reaching a climax with the publication of 'Tropic of Cancer' in 1934. This one-sided correspondence was often quarried for publication, and has never appeared in print until now.
The Turncoat
Author | : Siegfried Lenz |
Publsiher | : Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781590510544 |
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“Never has the aftermath for Germans been better depicted than in Siegfried Lenz’s elegiac, The Turncoat. A newly discovered masterpiece.” —Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Avenue of Spies Previously unpublished, this German postwar classic is one of the best books of this major writer, who died in 2014. The last summer before the end of World War II, Walter Proska is posted to a small unit tasked with ensuring the safety of a railway line deep in the forest on the border with Ukraine and Byelorussia. In this swampy region, a handful of men—stunned by the heat, attacked by mosquitoes, and abandoned by their own troops in the face of the resistance—must also submit to the increasingly absurd and inhuman orders of their superior. Time passes, and the soldiers isolate themselves, haunted by madness and the desire for death. An encounter with a young Polish partisan, Wanda, makes Proska further doubt the validity of his oath of allegiance, and he seeks to answer the questions that obsess him: When conscience and duty clash, which is more important? Is it possible to take any action without becoming guilty in some way? And where is Wanda, this woman from the resistance he can’t forget? Written in 1951, The Turncoat is Siegfried Lenz’s second novel. Rejected by his publisher, who thought that the story of a German soldier defecting to the Soviet side would be unwelcome in the context of the Cold War, the manuscript was forgotten for nearly seventy years before being rediscovered after the author’s death. A posthumous triumph.
The German Lesson
Author | : Siegfried Lenz |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811209822 |
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"The German Lesson marks a double triumph--a book of rare depth and brilliance, to begin with, presented in an English version that succeeds against improbable odds in conveying the full power of the original." --Ernst Pawel, New York Times Book Review
The Heritage
Author | : Siegfried Lenz |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0571275281 |
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In "The Heritage," first published in German in 1978, Zygmunt Rogalla, an elderly Masurian rug-maker from Lucknow - which was once part of East Prussia, now part of Poland - tells his story from a hospital bed. The curator of the Masurian museum, where objects were collected as a symbol of the culture that had been lost in the second world war and after, he is also its destroyer, his injuries self-inflicted. Through the remembrance of his sufferings, he explains why the museum was so important to him, and to his fellow exiles, and what terrible discovery led him to destroy not only his life's greatest work, but the objects salvaged from his people's lost past.
The Lightship
Author | : Siegfried Lenz |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0571274846 |
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It is the last watch of the lightship that stands at anchor in the Baltic Sea, near the port of Kiel; it is nine years since the end of World War II and the mines she warned the shipping of have been removed. But on her last watch, her peace is interrupted: her captain, Freytag, takes in three men whose boat has broken down, and with them, their illegal cargo of guns. Held hostage on the ship by the three criminals, headed by the sinister Dr Caspary, the tensions between captain and crew become apparent. Freytag still hopes for a peaceful end to the watch; but his son, Fred, and his resourceful but outgunned crew cannot forget Freytag's dishonour in the war. As a stalemate develops, Freytag finds he must make a final choice - one that must redeem him in the eyes of his men.