Comedy in a Minor Key: A NovelMacmillan + ORM, 14.07.2010 - 143 Seiten A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation—and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners—Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple who first hide a Jew they know as Nico, then must dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia. This novella, first published in 1947 and now translated into English for the first time, shows Hans Keilson at his best: deeply ironic, penetrating, sympathetic, and brilliantly modern, an heir to Joseph Roth and Franz Kafka. In 2008, when Keilson received Germany's prestigious Welt Literature Prize, the citation praised his work for exploring "the destructive impulse at work in the twentieth century, down to its deepest psychological and spiritual ramifications." |
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... fear and sadness at the same time, also looked up a little and listened. “Already. So early,” the doctor whispered to no one in particular. Wim looked sideways at him, confused, as though not sure what this comment referred to. The ...
... fear of the death that came both quietly and loudly, and looked at the shadow play of the hanging lamp on the yellowish wall of the room. Then he bent over the bed again and touched the body with his fingers. It was slowly growing cold ...
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Inhalt
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Chapter Three | 23 |
Chapter Four | 33 |
Chapter Five | 49 |
Chapter Six | 61 |
Chapter Seven | 67 |
Chapter Eight | 77 |
Chapter Nine | 89 |
Chapter Ten | 99 |
Chapter Eleven | 117 |
Chapter Twelve | 133 |