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'I was just a regular idiot, a nutcase, a show-off and all that. Nothing to cry about. Seriously' Edgar W., teenage dropout, unrequited lover, unrecognized genius - and dead - tells the story of his brief, spectacular life. It is the story of how he rebels against the petty rules of communist East Germany to live in an abandoned summer house, with just a tape recorder and a battered copy of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther for company. Of his passionate love for the dark-eyed, unattainable kindergarten teacher Charlie. And of how, in a series of calamitous events (involving electricity and a spray paint machine), he meets his untimely end. Absurd, funny and touching, this cult German bestseller is both a satire on life in the GDR and a hymn to youthful freedom.
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'Edgar's voice is reminiscent of Holden Caulfield's, full of naïveté and and youthful arrogance, thoughtful and self-aware... a touching and tragic coming-of-age tale that utilizes other pieces of art to examine life in East Germany' -- Publishers Weekly
'Blackly comic and slickly irreverent... an East German Holden Caulfield... Pushkin Press deserves praise for giving English readers the chance to discover Plenzdorf's wonderful little novel - one that is tragic, yet full of 'zing'' --Star Tribune
'A magnificent realisation of teenage angst... a classic of late twentieth century European fiction' --BookTrust
'Hip-sardonic... a mocking parody of Goethe's romantic epic' --Time
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Ulrich Plenzdorf was born in Berlin in 1934, and studied Philosophy and Film in Leipzig. In the early 1970s, he achieved fame with the much acclaimed The New Sorrows of Young W., considered a modern classic of German literature and taught in classrooms across Germany. From 2004 onwards, Plenzdorf was a guest lecturer at the German Institute of Literature in Leipzig. An award-winning and much celebrated author and dramatist, he died in 2007.
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- EditorePushkin Press
- Data di pubblicazione2018
- ISBN 10 1782274456
- ISBN 13 9781782274452
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine144
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