Three Contemporary German Novellas: "A Runaway Horse", "Lenz" and "The Sunday I Became World Champion" - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826412149 ISBN 13: 9780826412140

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2001

Synopsis

A Runaway Horse by Martin Walser revolves around two friends, long separated, who meet on vacation. One is an idle teacher; the other an optimistic go-getter. The teacher discovers that one cannot avoid dealing head-on with life any better than one can reason with a runaway horse. Peter Schneider's Lenz, which takes its title from the melancholy novella by Georg Bnchner, is about the life of a young intellectual in 1960s East Germany. This is its first publication in English. The Sunday I Became World Champion, by F. C. Delius, portrays a postwar German village through the eyes of a preacher's son a boy whose stutter is helped by the success of the national soccer team.

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A collection of three translated German novellas. Martin Walser's "A Runaway Horse" revolves around two friends; "The Wall Jumper", by Peter Schneider, captures the dilemmas of the Cold War; and F.C. Delius's "The Sunday I Became World Champion" portrays a postwar German village.

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• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0826412149
• ISBN 13: 9780826412140
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324