Wolfgang Koeppen, Author , trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Norton $23.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-393-05718-8
Koeppen examines the obsessive side of young love in his first novel, a sly romantic satire that was banned in Nazi Germany in 1936 for its candid depiction of a decidedly one-sided, non-Aryan relationship in which the woman calls most of the shots.
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Wolfgang Koeppen, Author, Michael Hofmann, Translator , trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Norton $12.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-32194-4
First published in 1954, Koeppen's novel is a genuine lost classic, a penetrating examination of the angst, anguish and anger that infected Germany after WWII. The novel's vehicle for exploration is a clan living in postwar exile in Rome...
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Wolfgang Koeppen, Author, Michael Hofmann, Translator , trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Norton $23.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-393-04902-2
The malaise of mid-century Germany and the early stirrings of disgust at the smooth machinations of postwar politics are startlingly fresh and vivid in this tour de force originally published in Germany in 1953 and only now translated into English....
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Wolfgang Koeppen, Author, Michael Hofmann, Translator, Michael Hofmann, Introduction by Penguin Books $10.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-018790-8
So what has Koeppen's novel, now appearing in the U.S. for the first time, got to do with Thomas Mann? There are elements of Death in Venice , of obssession under a Mediterranean sun, but Mann's novella was published in 1912 and his compatriot's...
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Wolfgang Koeppen, trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2918-0
Set in Munich in 1948, German writer Koeppen’s wrenching novel, first published in 1951, portrays a society coping with the aftermath of WWII. The panoramic narrative cuts back and forth across the intersecting lives and experiences of characters...
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