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Chargement... Leavetaking (1961)par Peter Weiss
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 'Sebaldian,' one blurb puts it. That's ridiculous. This is actually really good. ( ) I read the Danish translation of this great German author, who became famous for his political plays. His prose reminds me of German expressionists of the 1920´s, very suggestive and graphic. He describes his adolescence in Prague and Berlin as son of a Jewish businessman. In the follow-up to this report, Fluchtpunkt/Vanishing Point, Weiss tells about the emigration to Stockholm, Sweden, in 1940. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la série éditorialeBibliothek des 20. Jahrhunderts (Dt. Bücherbund) (Weiss, Peter) Bibliothek Suhrkamp (700) edition suhrkamp (85) Meulenhoff editie (40) Est contenu dansContient un commentaire de texte deContient un guide de lecture pour étudiantListes notables
"I was on my way to look for a life of my own." A brilliant, brutally honest autobiographical novel, long out of print, from one of the great artistic polymaths of the 20th century. This is a Sebaldian account of the narrator's attempt to break free of a repressive upper-middle-class upbringing and make his way as an artist and individual, written in a single incantatory paragraph."Leavetaking "is the story of an upper-middle-class childhood and adolescence in Berlin between the wars. In the course of the book, Weiss plumbs the depths of family life: there is the early death of his beloved sister Margit, the difficult relationship with his parents, the fantasies of adolescence and youth, all set in the midst of an increasing anti-Semitism, which forces the Weiss family to move again and again, a peripatetic existence that only intensifies the narrator's growing restlessness. The young narrator is largely oblivious to world events and focused instead on becoming an artist, an ambition frustrated generally by his milieu and specifically by his mother, who, herself a former actress, destroys his paintings during one of the family's moves. In the end, he turns to an older mentor, Harry Haller, a fictionalized portrait of Hermann Hesse, who encouraged and supported Weiss, and with Haller's example before him, the narrator takes his first steps towards a truly independent life. Intensely lyrical, written with great imaginative power, "Leavetaking" is a vivid evocation of a world that has disappeared and of the narrator's developing consciousness. THE NEVERSINK LIBRARY champions books from around the world that have been overlooked, underappreciated, looked askance at, or foolishly ignored. They are issued in handsome, well-designed editions at reasonable prices in hopes of their passing from one reader to another--and further enriching our culture. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)833.914Literature German literature and literatures of related languages German fiction Modern period (1900-) 1900-1990 1945-1990Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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