Journey Through America (eBook)

Michael Kimmage, Wolfgang Koeppen (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
172 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9780857454379 (ISBN)

Infos

Amerikafahrt by Wolfgang Koeppen is a masterpiece of observation, analysis, and writing, based on his 1958 trip to the United States. A major twentieth-century German writer, Koeppen presents a vivid and fascinating portrait of the US in the late 1950s: its major cities, its literary culture, its troubled race relations, its multi-culturalism and its vast loneliness, a motif drawn, in part, from Kafka s Amerika. A modernist travelogue, the text employs symbol, myth, and image, as if Koeppen sought to answer de Tocqueville s questions in the manner of Joyce and Kafka. Journey through America is also a meditation on America, intended for a German audience and mindful of the destiny of postwar Europe under many Americanizing influences.

Autor

Wolfgang Koeppen (1906-1996) is one of the best known German authors of the postwar period. His most acclaimed novels are Pigeons on the Grass (1951), The Hothouse (1953), and Death in Rome (1954).

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Transatlantic Perspectives
• Reihe/Serie: Transatlantic Perspectives
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: General Cultural Studies • History: 20th Century to Present • Literary Studies • Literary Studies, History: 20th Century to Present
• ISBN-13: 9780857454379 / 9780857454379