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Abschied von den Eltern : Erzählung / Peter Weiss ; mit einem einem Kommentar von Axel Schmolke.
- Title
- Abschied von den Eltern : Erzählung / Peter Weiss ; mit einem einem Kommentar von Axel Schmolke.
- Author
- Weiss, Peter, 1916-1982
- Publication
- Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PT2685.E5 A62 2007 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Schmolke, Axel.
- Description
- 191 p.; 18 cm.
- Summary
- A fictional account based on the life of the author and his "attempt to break free of a repressive upper-middle-class upbringing and make his way as an artist and individual, written in a single incantatory paragraph. This is the story of an upper-middle-class childhood and adolescence in Berlin between the wars. In the course of the book, Weiss plumbs the depths of family life: there is the early death of his beloved sister Margit, the difficult relationship with his parents, the fantasies of adolescence and youth, all set in the midst of an increasing anti-Semitism, which forces the Weiss family to move again and again, a peripatetic existence that only intensifies the narrator's growing restlessness. The young narrator is largely oblivious to world events and focused instead on becoming an artist, an ambition frustrated generally by his milieu and specifically by his mother, who, herself a former actress, destroys his paintings during one of the family's moves. In the end, he turns to an older mentor, Harry Haller, a fictionalized portrait of Hermann Hesse, who encouraged and supported Weiss, and with Haller's example before him, the narrator takes his first steps towards a truly independent life. Intensely lyrical, written with great imaginative power, this story is a vivid evocation of a world that has disappeared and of the narrator's developing consciousness."--Goodreads.
- Series Statement
- Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek ; 77
- Uniform Title
- Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek ; 77.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fictional Work
- Psychological fiction
- Novels
- Domestic fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Fictional autobiographies
- Autobiographical fiction
- Romans.
- Belletristische Darstellung.
- Kommentar.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-160).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9783518188774 (pbk.)
- 3518188771 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 82148502
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library