Journey Through America

di Wolfgang Koeppen (Autore)

Michael Kimmage (Autore)

Berghahn Books, 2012

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.

• Autore: Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Kimmage
• Editore: Berghahn Books
• Collana: Transatlantic Perspectives
• Anno: 2012
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 172 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 404 gr.
• EAN: 9780857452313

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