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PEN/Faulkner AwardThe question How German Is It underlies the conduct and actions of the characters in Walter Abishs novel, an icy panorama of contemporary Germany, in which the tradition of order and obedience, the patrimony of the saber and the castle on the Rhine, give way to the present, indiscriminate fascination with all things American. On his return from Paris to his home city of W rtenburg, Ulrich Hargenau, whose father was executed for his involvement in the 1944 plot against Hitler, is compelled to ask himself, How German am l?--as he compares his own recent attempt to save his life, and his wife Paulas, by testifying against fellow members of a terrorist group, with his fathers selfless heroism. Through Ulrich--privileged, upper class--we confront the incongruities of the new democratic Germany, in particular the flourishing community of Brumholdstein, named after the countrys greatest thinker, Brumhold, and built on the former site of a concentration camp. Paulas participation in the destruction of a police station; the States cynical response to crush the terrorists; two attempts on Ulrichs life; the discovery in Brumholdstein of a mass grave of death camp inmates--all these, with subtle irony, are presented as pieces of a puzzle spelling out the turmoil of a societys endeavor to avoid the implications of its menacing heritage.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
