Kurt Tucholsky

Castle Gripsholm

Übersetzer: Hofmann, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A beguiling fable about a summer holiday in the Swedish countryside that transforms into a provocative parable about oppression and the evil awaiting Europe as the Nazis came to power. Castle Gripsholm, the best and most beloved work by Kurt Tucholsky, is a short novel about an enchanted summer holiday. It begins with an assignment: Tucholsky's publisher wants him to write something light and funny, otherwise about whatever Tucholsky wants. A deal is struck and the story is off: about Peter, a writer; his girlfriend, known as the Princess; and a summer vacation far from the hurly-burly of Berlin. Peter and the Princess have rented a small house attached to a historic castle in Sweden, and they have five weeks of long days and white nights at their disposal; five weeks for swimming and walking and sex and talking and visits with Peter's buddy Karlchen and with Billie, the Princess's best friend. It is perfect, until they meet a weeping girl fleeing the cruel headmistress of a home for children. The vacationers decide they must free the girl and send her back to her mother in Switzerland, which brings about an encounter with authority that casts a worrying shadow over their radiant summer idyll. Soon they must return to Germany. What kind of fairy tale are they living in?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc
• Originaltitel: Schloss, Gripsholm
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 127
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 126mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 172g
• ISBN-13: 9781681373348
• ISBN-10: 1681373343
• Artikelnr.: 54353999

Autorenporträt

Kurt Tucholsky, translated from the German and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann