Journey Through America / / Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Kimmage.
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 tr...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Transatlantic Perspectives ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (172 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Journey through America -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| 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 also a meditation on America, intended for a German audience and mindful of the destiny of postwar Europe under many Americanizing influences. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780857454379 9783110998283 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9780857454379 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Kimmage. |