The German Lesson - Brossura

Lenz, Siegfried

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0811209822 ISBN 13: 9780811209823

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1986

Riassunto

While in an institution for delinquent boys, Siggi Jepsen writes about his life in wartime Germany and his relationship with a painter of international reputation who was betrayed by his father

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Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is one day 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, constable of the northernmost police station in Germany, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist, their neighbor, from painting and to seize all his "degenerate" work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. Against the great brooding northern landscape. Siggi recounts the clash of father and son, of duty and personal loyalty, in wartime Germany. "I was trying to find out," Lenz says, "where the joys of duty could lead a people"

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0811209822
• ISBN 13: 9780811209823
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile