This collection of High Modernism among Austrian and German writers includes: "Pogrom" and a selection from "The Case of Sergeant Grischa" by Arnold Zweig; "The Murder of a Buttercup" and a selection from Berlin Alexanderplatz (recently cited as one of the 100 Most Meaningful Books of All Time in a survey that was reported in "The Guardian", and made into a landmark multipart television series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder) by Alfred Doblin; Selections from "Jew Suss" and "The Oppermans" by Lion Feuchtwanger; and a selection from "The Seventh Cross" and "Excursion of the Dead Girls" by Anna Seghers.
ISBN: | 9780826414557 |
Publication date: | 1st February 2003 |
Author: | Alexander Stephan |
Publisher: | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 320 pages |
Series: | German Library |
Genres: |
Literary essays Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |