The German Lesson
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The German Lesson
Book Details
- Author
- Siegfried Lenz
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Cultural Heritage
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780811222013
- ISBN-10
- 0811222012
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ISBN: 0811222012
Author: Lenz, Siegfried
Condition: New
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
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