Journey through America / / by Wolfgang Koeppen ; translated by Michael Kimmage
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| Autore: |
Koeppen Wolfgang <1906-1996.>
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| Titolo: |
Journey through America / / by Wolfgang Koeppen ; translated by Michael Kimmage
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| 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
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| 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: | 1-80758-723-1 |
| 1-283-65559-4 | |
| 0-85745-437-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910970837003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Transatlantic perspectives ; ; 1.