Sad Affair by Wolfgang Koeppen
Set during the heady, pre-Second World War days of cabaret-era Germany, the novel centres on Sibylle - a stunning seductress who balances her love affairs with five men at once - and Friedrich, the callow, melancholic youth who obsessively pursues her. Originally banned by the Nazis for its frank sexual themes, Wolfgang Koeppen's first novel is appearing in English. A romance that anticipated Beat literature by nearly twenty years through its dizzying language and exploration of casual love, this is Koeppen's most autobiographical and amusing work.
Wolfgang Koeppen was born in 1906 and died ninety years later in Munich. A journalist for left-wing papers in Weimar Berlin, he spent the early Nazi period in the Netherlands, returning in the war years to work for the film company that produced Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis'. He published five novels, two in the 1930s and three in the 1950s. Michael Hofmann is a poet, and was awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-month Club Prize for translation. He has translated Joseph Roth's works for Granta.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781862076013 |
| ISBN 10 | 1862076014 |
| Title | Sad Affair |
| Author | Wolfgang Koeppen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2003-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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