The German Lesson

Siegfried Lenz

ISBN 10: 0811222012 / ISBN 13: 9780811222013

Editore: Norton & Company Mär 2021, 2021

Neuware -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.'. Codice articolo 9780811222013

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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

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Titolo: The German Lesson
Casa editrice: Norton & Company Mär 2021
Data di pubblicazione: 2021
Legatura: Taschenbuch
Condizione: Neu