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A sad affair
By Koeppen, Wolfgang & Hofmann, Michael
- ISBN
- 978-0-39305-718-8
- Publisher
- New York ; W.W. Norton, c2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 15, 2003
Upon its original publication in the mid-1930s, this compact first novel, a tragicomic and sexually frank roman clef (appearing here for the first time in English), earned Nazi disapproval. Its youthful author did not gain distinction until after 1945, when he was recognized as one of the leading postwar German writers. Drawing on his own real-life romantic obsession, Koeppen (1906-96) relates the frenetic experiences of would-be ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
