· Death in Rome. by Terry on Decem. From the title until the last words of the novel, Wolfgang Koeppen’s novel Death in Rome moves relentlessly towards its predicted fatal end. In our era, when novels so often consist of one digression after another, it’s a little startling to read a novel that signals its intentions from the. · Death in Rome by Koeppen, Wolfgang. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , WOLFGANG KOEPPEN DEATH IN ROME TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL HOFMANN PENGUIN BOOKS Copyright Wolfgang Koeppen, Introduction and translation.
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 to great controversy, it is only now being recognized as a classic. A tragic portrait of Germany after World War II. "Death in Rome" Wolfgang Koeppen. Wolfgang Koeppen, published in the early fifties in a short sequence of three narrative works, in which he took the mentality of the immediate post-war years and the social failures of the the newly founded Federal Republic of Germany to the visor. "Death in Rome" appeared in , not pages. Death in Rome by Koeppen, Wolfgang. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,
Death in Rome (German: Der Tod in Rom) is a German novel by Wolfgang Koeppen. Koeppen belonged to the literary generation of West Germany, which revived the devastated cultural landscape after twelve years of fascism and the ruin caused by the Second World War. Death in Rome Quotes Showing of 1 “The horse had a fly-net over its head and ears. It looked down on the paving-stones with the empty disappointed expression of an old moral theologian. Death in Rome, Wolfgang Koeppen. 5 January / David Auerbach /. There’s a huge drop-off in big novels of ideas in the Germanic areas post-World War II. Mann, Broch, Musil, Schnitzler, Doblin, Stefan Zweig, and Joseph Roth all oriented themselves around fairly articulable ideologies, some more complex than others.
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