Three Contemporary German Novellas Friedrich Christian Delius, Peter Schneider and Martin Walser |
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| Author:
| Walser, Martin
Schneider, Peter
Delius, Friedrich C.
Willson, |
| Series title: | German Library |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8264-1214-0 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2000 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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A Runaway Horse by Martin Walser revolves around two friends, long separated, who meet on vacation. One is an idle teacher; the other an optimistic go-getter. The teacher discovers that one cannot avoid dealing head-on with life any better than one can reason with a runaway horse. Peter Schneider's Lenz, which takes its title from the melancholy novella by Georg Bnchner, is about the life of a young intellectual in 1960s East Germany. This is its first publication in English. The...
More DescriptionA Runaway Horse by Martin Walser revolves around two friends, long separated, who meet on vacation. One is an idle teacher; the other an optimistic go-getter. The teacher discovers that one cannot avoid dealing head-on with life any better than one can reason with a runaway horse. Peter Schneider's Lenz, which takes its title from the melancholy novella by Georg Bnchner, is about the life of a young intellectual in 1960s East Germany. This is its first publication in English. The Sunday I Became World Champion, by F. C. Delius, portrays a postwar German village through the eyes of a preacher's son--a boy whose stutter is helped by the success of the national soccer team.