Youth: Autobiographical Writings aphorisms Imago Bird

Imago Bird

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Youth: Autobiographical Writings aphorisms Imago BirdThe short, intense autofiction Youth, translated here for the first timeis a portrait of the little north German town of Greifswald before World War I. It is a miracle of compression, a kind of personal apocalypse. Also included is one of Koeppens last works: a short, fragmentary text depicting Wolfgang Koeppens return to the town of his schooldays. Wolfgang Koeppen is the most important German novelist of the past seventy years: a radical, not to say