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Death in Rome / Wolfgang Koeppen ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann ; with an introduction by Joshua Cohen ; with an afterword by the translator.
Van Pelt Library PT2621.O46 T613 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koeppen, Wolfgang, 1906-1996, Author.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 1665.
- New Directions Paperbook ; NDP1665
- Standardized Title:
- Tod in Rom. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/dbae9420-fc3f-8076-fe24-bb68b9c8e382
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Germans--Italy--Rome--Fiction.
- Germans.
- Rome (Italy)--Fiction.
- Rome (Italy).
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 192 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Death in Rome tells the story of four members of a German family-a former SS officer, a young man preparing for the priesthood, a composer, and a government administrator-reunited by chance in the decaying beauty of postwar Rome. A chilling account of Nazis after the war, here the older generation is resentful but not repentant. From the old unreconstructed Nazi officer Jude- jahn (the name has a suggestion of "Jew hunter") to the young and apparently gay priest, from the supposedly reformed Mayor to the acclaimed but haunted young composer Siegfried, no clear hope emerges. And amid haunting flash-backs and against the shadows of Rome with its imperial echoes, the darkness is alive. Brace yourself: the novel takes place over a two-day period, mostly at night, and it's certain that the present will be governed by the past, if you let it. In Death in Rome, Koeppen amply demonstrates that evil doesn't simply cease once it loses a war-it seeps out, hungry to exist in other forms. And as Siegfried confesses: "In my daydreams and nightmares I see the Browns and the nationalist idiocy on the march again." Death in Rome-following Pigeons on the Grass and The Hothouse- blazingly concludes Koeppen's masterful trilogy"-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780811240024
- 0811240029
- OCLC:
- 1519447881
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