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Chargement... Kaltenburg (original 2008; édition 2008)par Marcel Beyer (Auteur)
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Like Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring the World and works by Carl Djerassi, this challenging, beautifully written metafiction--to some extent based on the life of Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz--examines the workings of science and the nature of academic competition. Award-winning German novelist Beyer (The Karnau Tapes) ranges over the decades from Nazism to communism to a reunited Germany to reveal our ability both to remember and to recast unpleasant memories in a more favorable light, and to show what people must hide in order to survive. Appartient à la série éditorialesuhrkamp taschenbuch (4103) Prix et récompensesDistinctions
"Challenging, beautifully written "--Library Journal Hailed by The New Yorker as one of the best young novelists and recipient of Germany's most prestigious literary awards, Marcel Beyer returns with a brilliantly wrought novel that brings to life both an individual and a whole world: the zoologist Ludwig Kaltenburg, loosely based on Nobel Prize-winner Konrad Lorenz, and his institute for research into animal behavior. Hermann Funk first meets Kaltenburg when still a child in Posen in the 1930s. Hermann's father, a botanist, and Kaltenburg are close friends, but a rift occurs. In 1945, fleeing the war, the Funks perish in the Dresden bombing, and Hermann finds his way to Kaltenburg's newly established institute. He becomes Kaltenburg's protégé, embracing the Institute's unconventional methods. Yet parts of Kaltenburg's past life remain unclear. Was he a member of the Nazi Party? Does he believe his discoveries about aggression in animals also apply to humans? Why has he erased the years in Posen from his official biography? Through layers of memory and experience Hermann struggles to reconcile affection and doubt, to make sense of his childhood, even as he meets a woman with family secrets of her own Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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