Journey through America [[electronic resource] /] / by Wolfgang Koeppen ; translated by Michael Kimmage

• Autore: Koeppen Wolfgang <1906-1996.>
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (171 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.91
• Soggetto topico: Authors, German - Travel - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Civilization 1945-; United States Social conditions 1945-; United States Description and travel; United States Foreign public opinion, German
• Altri autori: KimmageMichael
• Note generali: "First published by Henry Goverts Verlag [in] 1959 as Amerikafahrt"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Journey through America; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Journey through America
• ISBN: 1-283-65559-4; 0-85745-437-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826634303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Transatlantic perspectives ; ; 1.