| Description |
1 online resource (171 pages) |
| Series |
Transatlantic perspectives ; v. 1 |
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Transatlantic perspectives ; 1.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Journey through America; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Amerikafahrt by Wolfgang Koeppen is a masterpiece of observation, analysis, and writing, based on his 1958 trip to the United States. A major twentieth-century German writer, Koeppen presents a vivid and fascinating portrait of the US in the late 1950s: its major cities, its literary culture, its troubled race relations, its multi-culturalism and its vast loneliness, a motif drawn, in part, from Kafka's Amerika. A modernist travelogue, the text employs symbol, myth, and image, as if Koeppen sought to answer de Tocqueville's questions in the manner of Joyce and Kafka. Journey through America is also a meditation on America, intended for a German audience and mindful of the destiny of postwar Europe under many Americanizing influences |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Koeppen, Wolfgang, 1906-1996 -- Travel -- United States
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| SUBJECT |
Koeppen, Wolfgang, 1906-1996 fast |
| Subject |
Authors, German -- Travel -- United States
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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Authors, German -- Travel
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Civilization
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Public opinion, German
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Social conditions
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Travel
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139945
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140518
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United States -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139993
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United States -- Foreign public opinion, German
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kimmage, Michael.
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| ISBN |
9780857454379 |
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0857454374 |
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