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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... night squadron flying in grew stronger. It might also—or so it seemed at first—be coming from the basement, or from the house next door . . . But it was the night bombers making themselves heard, no doubt about it. In a wide formation ...
... night—dull, thudding pops— were in curious contrast to the fine, almost musical sound of the airplanes. The windowpanes and doors shook and rattled, and the whole house, too lightly built, answered the explosions with a delicate, quick ...
... night, after taking down the blackout curtains? Not out of recklessness or to play a trick on them, but . . . You never knew, with a person in his situation, if he was about to do something stupid. No matter how you look at it, it's no ...
... past seven.” His eyes shone because his ears had not betrayed him. The droning grew louder. Wim heard it too. The first shots of the night—dull, thudding pops— were in curious contrast to the fine, almost musical sound 9.
... night of bombing. “And how was it for you today, Nico?” Wim usually went on, breaking off then and there all questions of Berlin. Nico answered in the same good-spirited tone: “Good, Wim, thank you; I am satisfied, the lodgings are good ...
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 |