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Schlump / Hans Herbert Grimm ; afterword by Volker Weidermann ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch.
- Title
- Schlump / Hans Herbert Grimm ; afterword by Volker Weidermann ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch.
- Author
- Grimm, Hans Herbert, 1896-1950
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2015]
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| Text | Request in advance | PT2613.R52125 S3513 2015 | Off-site |
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- 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.
- Subject
- World War (1914-1918)
- 1914-1918
- Weltkrieg 1914-1918
- World War, 1914-1918 > Fiction
- Pacifism > Fiction
- Soldiers > Germany > Fiction
- FICTION / War & Military
- FICTION / Psychological
- FICTION / Literary
- Pacifism
- Soldiers
- Germany
- (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
- Genre/Form
- Erzählende Literatur: Hauptwerk vor 1945.
- Fiktionale Darstellung.
- Psychological fiction
- War stories
- Autobiographical fiction
- Fiction
- Fictional autobiographies
- Fiction.
- Fictional autobiographies.
- Psychological fiction.
- Fiktionale Darstellung
- Erzählende Literatur: Hauptwerk vor 1945
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781681370262 (paperback : acid-free paper)
- 1681370263 (paperback : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2016019773
- OCLC
- 950083875
- SCSB-12149343
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library