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Journey through America / by Wolfgang Koeppen ; translated by Michael Kimmage.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koeppen, Wolfgang, 1906-1996.
- Series:
- Transatlantic perspectives ; 1.
- Transatlantic perspectives ; v. 1
- Standardized Title:
- Amerikafahrt. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Koeppen, Wolfgang, 1906-1996--Travel--United States.
- Koeppen, Wolfgang.
- Authors, German--Travel--United States.
- Authors, German.
- United States--Civilization--1945-.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--1945-.
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States--Foreign public opinion, German.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (171 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Journey through America; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- "First published by Henry Goverts Verlag [in] 1959 as Amerikafahrt"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-723-1
- 1-283-65559-4
- 0-85745-437-4
- OCLC:
- 813392103
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