Research Catalog

Title

Schlump / Hans Herbert Grimm ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch ; afterword by Volker Weidermann.

Author

Grimm, Hans Herbert, 1896-1950

Publication

New York : NYRB Classics, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bulloch, Jamie
• Weidermann, Volker, 1969-

Description

279 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"Seventeen-year-old Schlump marches off to war in 1915 because going to war is the best way to meet girls. And so he does, on his first posting, overseeing three villages in occupied France. But then Schlump is sent to the front, and the good times end. Schlump, which was published anonymously in 1928 and widely translated at the time, was one of the first German novels to describe World War I in all its horror and absurdity and it remains one of the best. What really sets it apart is its remarkable central character. Who is Schlump? A bit of a rascal and a bit of a sweetheart, a victim of his times, an inveterate survivor, maybe even a new type of man. At once comedy, documentary, hellhole, and fairy tale, Schlump is a gripping and disturbing book about the experience of trauma and what the great critic Walter Benjamin, writing at the same time as Hans Herbert Grimm, would call the death of experience, since perhaps if anything goes, nothing counts"--

Series Statement

New York Review Books classics

Uniform Title

• Schlump. English
• New York Review Books classics.

Alternative Title

Schlump.

Subjects

• Soldiers
• (lcgft)Psychological fiction
• FICTION > Psychological
• (lcsh)World War, 1914-1918--Fiction
• (bisacsh)FICTION--War & Military
• Psychological fiction
• (fast)Pacifism
• Soldiers > Germany > Fiction
• FICTION > War & Military
• Germany
• (fast)Fictional autobiographies
• (bisacsh)FICTION--Literary
• (fast)Soldiers
• War stories
• World War, 1914-1918 > Fiction
• (lcsh)Soldiers--Germany--Fiction
• Fiction
• 1914-1918
• (gsafd)War stories
• Pacifism > Fiction
• (lcgft)Autobiographical fiction
• World War (1914-1918)
• (bisacsh)FICTION--Psychological
• (fast)Germany
• (lcsh)Pacifism--Fiction
• Fictional autobiographies
• (fast)World War (1914-1918)
• FICTION > Literary
• Autobiographical fiction
• (fast)1914-1918
• (fast)Fiction
• (fast)Psychological fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction.
• Fictional autobiographies.
• Psychological fiction.
• War stories.
• Autobiographical fiction.
• Fiktionale Darstellung.
• Erzählende Literatur: Hauptwerk vor 1945.

Call Number

JFD 17-486

ISBN

• 9781681370262
• 1681370263

LCCN

2016019773

OCLC

950083875

Author

Grimm, Hans Herbert, 1896-1950, author.

Title

Schlump / Hans Herbert Grimm ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch ; afterword by Volker Weidermann.

Publisher

New York : NYRB Classics, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New York Review Books classics

New York Review Books classics.

Chronological Term

1914-1918

Indexed Term

(fast)World War (1914-1918)

(fast)1914-1918

(lcsh)World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.

(lcsh)Pacifism--Fiction.

(lcsh)Soldiers--Germany--Fiction.

(bisacsh)FICTION--War & Military.

(bisacsh)FICTION--Psychological.

(bisacsh)FICTION--Literary.

(fast)Pacifism.

(fast)Soldiers.

(fast)Germany.

(fast)Fiction.

(fast)Fictional autobiographies.

(fast)Psychological fiction.

(gsafd)War stories.

(lcgft)Psychological fiction.

(lcgft)Autobiographical fiction.

Added Author

Bulloch, Jamie, translator.

Weidermann, Volker, 1969- writer of supplementary content.

Other Form:

Online version: Grimm, Hans Herbert, 1896-1950, author. Schlump. New York : NYRB Classics, 2016 9781681370279 (DLC) 2016023709

Research Call Number

JFD 17-486