| Description |
1 online resource (171 pages). |
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| Series |
Transatlantic perspectives ; v. 1 |
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Transatlantic perspectives ; 1.
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| 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. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Journey through America; Bibliography; Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Koeppen, Wolfgang, 1906-1996 -- Travel -- United States.
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Koeppen, Wolfgang, 1906-1996. (OCoLC)fst01451859
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Authors, German -- Travel -- United States.
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United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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United States -- Description and travel.
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United States -- Foreign public opinion, German.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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Authors, German -- Travel.
(OCoLC)fst01905296
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Public opinion, German. (OCoLC)fst01354111
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1945
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| Added Author |
Kimmage, Michael. Author.
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Koeppen, Wolfgang. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780857452313 0857452312 (DLC) 2012001647 |
| ISBN |
9780857454379 (electronic bk.) |
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0857454374 (electronic bk.) |
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