ENGLISH

The Hothouse

By Wolfgang Koeppen

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2002
ISBN
0393323269, 9780393323269
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
240 kB (245434 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

A recovered masterpiece....Remarkable as a sidelong, searing appraisal of the legacy of the Nazi years.—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewA masterpiece by a writer long neglected in America, The Hothouse created a literary stir when it appeared in hardcover. Evoking comparisons to works by James Joyce and Malcolm Lowry, it traces the final two days in the life of a minor German politician, Keetenheuve, a man disillusioned by the corruption of post-World War II German politics and grieving after the sudden death of his wife. With a passionate, despairing voice, Wolfgang Koeppen (1906-1996), whom Gunter Grass once called the "greatest living German writer," creates a portrait of idealism crushed by political and personal compromise.

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