Detlev's Imitations (Masks)

Fichte, Hubert

ISBN 10: 1852421673 / ISBN 13: 9781852421670

Published by Serpent's Tail, 1992

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Synopsis:

Detlev, half Jewish and fatherless, survives the Hamburg firestorm of 1943 to become a child actor in the postwar years of hunger. The boy Detlev is also the man J?cki living the explosion of gay culture and student revolt in Hamburg in 1968. Detlev's Imitations is a sentimental education, an investigation of the possibilities and limits of language, an ethnography of sexual cultures, a novel of Hamburg and a poetic documentation of postwar German history.

About the Authors: Born in 1935 Hubert Fichte has long been recognized as one of the outstanding German writers of the 1960s. The posthumous publication in Germany of his nineteen-volume History of Sensitivity, a dialogue with Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, has established him as one of the great European writers of the twentieth century. He died in 1986.

Martin Chalmers is a writer, editor and translator. He has translated novels and short story collections by Erich Fried, Ernst Weiss, Herta Muller, Hubert Fichte, and Bertolt Brecht.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Detlev's Imitations (Masks)
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good