Youth Without God
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品牌: Odon Von HorvathR. Wills Thomas
基本信息出版社:Melville House (2012年6月5日)丛书名:Neversink平装:224页正文语种:英语ISBN:1612191193条形码:9781612191195商品重量:367 gASIN:1612191193您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Written in exile while in flight from the Nazis, this dark, bizarre evocation of everyday life under fascism is available for the first time in thirty years.
An unnamed narrator in an unnamed country is a schoolteacher with “a safe job with a pension at the end of it.” But, when he reprimands a student—“You shouldn’t have said that it doesn’t matter whether the negroes live or die. They’re human too, you know.”—he is accused of “sabotage of the Fatherland.” His students revolt: “We do not wish to be taught by you,” their petition reads. He tries to protect himself, first by retreating into silence, then by mouthing the platitudes of the regime. But when at last he fails to prevent a murder, he finds himself on trial . . . and one of the most reviled of society’s outcasts.
First published in 1939, the year after his tragic death at age 36, von Horváth’sYouth Without Godwas a harbinger of the brutalizing conformity of the totalitarian state. Its highly stylized characterizations and bizarre plot mirrored the unendurable reality engulfing Europe on the precipice of World War II.媒体推荐“Ödön von Horváth was a brilliant German writer. . . . He makes the truth irresistible.”
—Edmund Wilson
“The most gifted writer of his generation.”
—Stefan Zweig
“Horváth is better than Brecht.”
—Peter Handke