The German lesson

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The German lesson

Siegfried Lenz ; translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins

(A New Directions paperbook, 1493)

New Directions Books, 2021

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Deutschstunde

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"First published in Germany by Hoffman und Capmpe Verlag, 1968"--T.p. verso

"First published as New Directions Paperbook 618 in 1986 and reissued as NDP 1493 in 2021"--T.p. verso

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Description

In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the "The Joys of Duty." Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, a constable, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist artist from painting and to seize all his "degenerate" work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. "I was trying to find out," Lenz says, "where the joys of duty could lead a people." Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins

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  • NCID
    BC18892808
  • ISBN
    • 9780811222013
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ger
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    471 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
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