| Description |
279 pages ; 21 cm. |
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New York Review Books classics |
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New York Review Books classics.
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| Summary |
"Seventeen-year-old Schlump marches off to war in 1915 because going to war is the best way to meet girls. And so he does, on his first posting, overseeing three villages in occupied France. But then Schlump is sent to the front, and the good times end. Schlump, which was published anonymously in 1928 and widely translated at the time, was one of the first German novels to describe World War I in all its horror and absurdity and it remains one of the best. What really sets it apart is its remarkable central character. Who is Schlump? A bit of a rascal and a bit of a sweetheart, a victim of his times, an inveterate survivor, maybe even a new type of man. At once comedy, documentary, hellhole, and fairy tale, Schlump is a gripping and disturbing book about the experience of trauma and what the great critic Walter Benjamin, writing at the same time as Hans Herbert Grimm, would call the death of experience, since perhaps if anything goes, nothing counts"-- Provided by publisher. |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.
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Pacifism -- Fiction.
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Soldiers -- Germany -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- War & Military.
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FICTION -- Psychological.
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FICTION -- Literary.
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World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
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Pacifism. (OCoLC)fst01050108
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Soldiers. (OCoLC)fst01125233
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Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
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Weltkrieg 1914-1918
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| Chronological Term |
1914-1918
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| Indexed Term |
(fast)World War (1914-1918) |
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(fast)1914-1918 |
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(lcsh)World War, 1914-1918--Fiction. |
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(lcsh)Pacifism--Fiction. |
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(lcsh)Soldiers--Germany--Fiction. |
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(bisacsh)FICTION--War & Military. |
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(bisacsh)FICTION--Psychological. |
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(bisacsh)FICTION--Literary. |
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(fast)Pacifism. |
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(fast)Soldiers. |
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(fast)Germany. |
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(fast)Fiction. |
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(fast)Fictional autobiographies. |
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(fast)Psychological fiction. |
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(gsafd)War stories. |
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(lcgft)Psychological fiction. |
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(lcgft)Autobiographical fiction. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Fictional autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01726528
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Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
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War stories.
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Psychological fiction.
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Autobiographical fiction.
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(DE-588)1071854844 (uri)http://d-nb.info/gnd/1071854844 (DE-101)1071854844 Fiktionale Darstellung
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(DE-101)1010836293 Erzählende Literatur: Hauptwerk vor 1945
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| Added Author |
Bulloch, Jamie, translator.
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Weidermann, Volker, 1969- writer of supplementary content.
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| Added Title |
Schlump. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Grimm, Hans Herbert, 1896-1950, author. Schlump. New York : NYRB Classics, 2016 9781681370279 (DLC) 2016023709 |
| ISBN |
9781681370262 (paperback) |
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1681370263 (paperback) |
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