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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... quickly revved up to full speed, the droning sound of the 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 ...
... quickly across the small front garden. He often left his room just as quickly—in slippers, of course, as they had agreed at the beginning—so that leaning on the banister upstairs, he could hear the newspaper rustle as it was stuffed ...
... could hear him . . . It was against their agreement, so he didn't do it. It was almost too much for his strength. No one knew what battles raged inside him. He quickly called to mind something else then, ordeals, the 12.
A Novel Hans Keilson. He quickly called to mind something else then, ordeals, the horrors that had certainly awaited him but which he had escaped—to other, new tortures here. “Ordeals and horrors are waiting everywhere,” he muttered to ...
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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 |