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»A book that dares tell a real love story«: A woman leaves her husband to go with another she met one hour before.
»The power of love to crack the frozen surface of existence sets in motion this extraordinary novel of a woman’s sudden passion and its consequences. The teller of the tale is the woman herself, Marianne, a young wife who seems to have everything: a successful husband, an adored son, a ›perfect‹ marriage. Yet from the moment she meets Berthold...
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»A book that dares tell a real love story«: A woman leaves her husband to go with another she met one hour before.
»The power of love to crack the frozen surface of existence sets in motion this extraordinary novel of a woman’s sudden passion and its consequences. The teller of the tale is the woman herself, Marianne, a young wife who seems to have everything: a successful husband, an adored son, a ›perfect‹ marriage. Yet from the moment she meets Berthold Mönchen, a brilliant and celebrated writer, the entire fabric of her life of safe emotions and proper behavior begins to unravel, leaving her defenseless against unsuspected, overwhelming need and desire.
Rarely has a novel made so vivid why a woman would abandon husband and child for a man she barely knows. And seldom if ever has the anatomy of a love affair beyond the normal bounds of society been so tellingly traced, as this emotionally inexperienced woman and this worldly wise and weary man move from the initial intoxication of their flight to freedom, to the growing realization there is no escape from their own separate selves and the separate pasts that seek again to claim them.« (book description from the English edition by Fromm)
»The best love story Germany has produced since 1945.« Marcel Reich-Ranicki
»Observational sensitivity and the complexity of the art of characterisation, elemental love in light of the present social background – all of this creates a spell that originates in this straightforwardly told story.« Paul Schallück
»The best love story Germany has produced since 1945.« Marcel Reich-Ranicki
»Observational sensitivity and the complexity of the art of characterisation, elemental love in light of the present social background – all of this creates a spell that originates in this straightforwardly told story.« Paul Schallück
1955, 277 pages
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Hans Erich Nossack
Author
Hans Erich Nossack was born in Hamburg in 1901, and much of his writing was shaped by his relationship to his native city, where he died in 1977. His work was banned by the Nazi regime and most of his manuscripts were destroyed by the allied bombing of Hamburg in 1943. Hailed by Jean-Paul Sartre as one of the great German existentialist novelists, Hans Erich Nossack has long been considered a major writer throughout Europe. His essays, poems, plays and novels, including Dem unbekannten Sieger, Der Fall d'Arthez and Unmögliche Beweisaufnahme, won him some of Europe’s most important literary prizes.
Hans Erich Nossack
Author
Hans Erich Nossack was born in Hamburg in 1901, and much of his writing was shaped by his relationship to his native city, where he died in 1977....
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Year of Publication: 2001
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 2001
Give Me a Sign of Life Again Soon
On the occasion of Hans Erich Nossack’s 100th birthday, Suhrkamp published a selection of his correspondence from the years between 1943 and 1956 that shows Nossack as an important correspondent in conversation with Hermann Kasack, Peter Suhrkamp, Hans H. König, Ernst Kreuder, Peter Huchel, Joseph Breitbach and others.
The correspondence contained in this volume...
Year of Publication: 1997
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 1997
The Diaries 1943–1977
These diaries are important documents in understanding Hans Erich Nossack, a singular as well as exemplary literary figure of the 20th century; beyond that, they offer – both gripping and enlightening – an insight into a time in which the young Federal Republic of Germany was formed. After their publication, the importance of these diaries was recognised immediately and the edition received...
Year of Publication: 1975
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 1975
For the Sake of Brevity
The short texts gathered in this volume were written between 1946 and 1974. In snapshots they convey the quintessence of a long literary biography.
Year of Publication: 1969
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 1969
To the Unknown Hero
»Hans Erich Nossack belongs to the extraordinary lineage of German writers that includes Hesse, Kafka, Rilke, and Novalis. Jean-Paul Sartre has called him ›the most interesting contemporary German...
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Year of Publication: 1968
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 1968
The d'Arthes Case
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Year of Publication: 1961
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 1961
The End
In 1943, three months after the »end of Hamburg«, Hans Erich Nossack gives an account of the catastrophe he witnessed. »Fate spared me playing a part in it … In my eyes, the entire...
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English world rights (Chicago UP), France (Héros-Limite), Sweden (Faethon), Greece (Skarifima)
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Year of Publication: 1959
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 1959
The Impossible Proof
One of the greatest pieces of prose that German post-war literature has produced: The Impossible Proof, whose central theme is mankind’s »departure into the...
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Year of Publication: 1947
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 1947
An Offering for the Dead
»In Nossack’s work a survivor’s stay in a city of the dead filled with memories of their lives becomes an offering for the dead, as the title »Nekyia« suggests. Reality, which is experienced as a...
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Russia (AST)
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