Author: Kluge, Alexander. (Leila Vennewitz - translator)
Title: Attendance List for a Funeral (translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz)
Description: McGraw Hill, New York, 1966. First Thus, Hardcover (Original Brown Cloth). Good Condition/Good. black end-papers. Eleven stories of individuals living under the Third Reich and their frustration to find justice in such a rigid order even after the fall of the Third Reich. Alexandwe Kluge, author, philosopher, academic and film director, is one of the major German fiction writers of the late-20th century and an important social critic. His fictional works, which tend toward the short story form, are significant for their formal experimentation and insistently critical thematics. Inexorable logic, unquestioning devotion to duty, rationality severed from all emotion - these are the forces of death which Alexander Kluge denounces in this brilliant passionate, surrealistic gallery of contemporary portraits. In a tone of icy calm, and with frightening truth, the author chronicles the adventures of contemporaries. He tells of a teacher who realizes how little society values education when a colleague is arrested for molesting a young girl, and treated as a common criminal He tells of two concentration camp inmates who drive their guard to despair by refusing to cooperate in an “Experiment in Love.” He shows us, in the title story, the thoughts of a selected few who attended the funeral of a crippled Lesbian friend. Here is a powerful introduction to the work of a German writer who combines the imaginative vigour of Gunter Grass and the humanistic insight of Heinrich Boll.The stories in this collection are: 'Attendance list for a funeral'; ;Anita G.'; 'An experiment in love'; 'E. Schincke'; 'Sergeant Major Hans Peickert'; 'Mandorf'; 'Lieutenant Boulanger'; 'Demise of an attitude: Chief of Detectives Scheliha'; 'Fräulein von Posa'; 'A Change of Career'; & 'Manfred Schmidt'.. This is the first USA edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 103 + 1 pages. D/J. in library protective cover, taped to book covers. Dust Jacket un-clipped. White titles spine. Library stamps to pre-title page, verso of titles page & rear end-paper; labels to fep. & spine.. Includes short bibliography of author to rear. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Short Stories; German Literature; German Short Stories; Germany; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 5136.

Keywords: BZDB227 Fiction/Short Stories/Literature & Literary/German Literature/German Short Stories/Alexandwe Kluge Fiction; Short Stories; German Literature; German Short Stories; Germany; Literature & Literary. Unbranded Alexander. (Leila Vennewitz - translat


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