Breon Mitchell
1) The trial
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English
Description
One of the great works of the twentieth century, Kafka's The Trial has been read as a study of political power, a pessimistic religious parable, or a crime novel where the accused man is himself the problem. In it, a man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. Faced with this ambiguous but threatening situation, Josef K. gradually succumbs to its psychological pressure. One of the iconic figures of...
2) The tin drum
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Language
English
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A dwarf drummer found guilty of a crime he did not commit writes his memoirs from a mental hospital in postwar Germany.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The final work of the Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass—a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, the world In spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, suddenly everything seems possible again: love letters, soliloquies, scenes of jealousy, swan songs, social satire, and moments of happiness crowd onto the page. Only an aging artist who has once more cheated death can set to work with such wisdom, defiance,...