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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... situation, if he was about to do something stupid. No matter how you look at it, it's no bed of roses to force yourself to sit alone in a room, for twelve months or often even longer, always with a certain danger in view, or to shuffle ...
... situation conceals within itself certain unforeseen possibilities. “And Erik?” Marie continued. “Erik?” Wim asked, taken aback, and again: “Erik?” No question about it, she was nervous. The most nonsensical names were coming into her ...
... situation. “Eat! It's getting cold!” “No, Wim, no,” Nico responded, a little worked up, as though for him it was an existential question, and he let his head with its stuffed cheeks sink forward again until he was looking straight ahead ...
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Inhalt
3 | |
15 | |
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 |