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The German Lesson

By Siegfried Lenz

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The German Lesson

By Siegfried Lenz

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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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
471
Release Date:
2021-04-06
Publication Date:
2021-03-30
Publisher:
Norton & Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0811222012
ISBN13:
9780811222013
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
490 g
Height:
142 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
40 cm
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