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The New Sorrows of Young W.

By: Ulrich Plenzdorf

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Edgar Wibeau, seventeen years old, has died on Christmas Eve in an unfortunate accident involving electricity. His father, who left the family when Edgard was five, interrogates those close to him, to find out what exactly happened - and who his son really was. Helpfully for the reader, Edgar himself punctuates the father's conversations with his mother, best friend Willi, and Charlie, the woman with whom Edgar was unhappily in love, to give us his version of events from beyond the grave - and a story magically reminiscent of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye unfolds before our eyes. Originally conceived as a screenplay, Plenzdorf's modern classic was first published in East Germany in 1973. A satire about the cultural and social limits of the GDR, it has long been a set text in German schools, and its critical and popular success remains unabated.

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1782270949

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The New Sufferings of Young W.

By: Ulrich Plenzdorf

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The New Sufferings of Young W.

By: Ulrich Plenzdorf

In English translation. One of the most talked-about works ever published in the German Democratic Republic! This innovative novel by an East German writer is a worthy companion to the classic it parodies and parallels: Goethes The Sufferings of Young Werther. Goethe and J. D. Salinger were the two greatest influences on Edgar Wibeau, Young W. Edgar is a 17-year-old with the frustrations of teenagers all over the world, living with the added pressures of an East-bloc state. A model all-GDR boy, the son of a factory director, he suddenly drops out. But not from socialism per sejust from conformity, picky regulations, and official disapproval of jeans, the blues, and girls. Hiding out, he finds and devours an old copy of The Sufferings of Young Werther. From then on he wards off reality with Goethe texts, and young Wibeaus fate is superimposed on that of Werther like a transparent overlay. It is an ironic and revealing linkage.

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Waveland Press

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1478609982

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The New Sorrows of Young W.

By: Ulrich Plenzdorf

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1782271139

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A History of Twentieth-century Germany

By: Ulrich Herbert

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A History of Twentieth-century Germany

By: Ulrich Herbert

Germany in the 20th century endured two world wars, a failed democracy, Hitler's dictatorship, the Holocaust, and a country divided for 40 years. But it has also boasted a strong welfare state, affluence, liberalization and globalization, a successful democracy, and the longest period of peace in European history. In this award-winning volume of German history, Ulrich Herbert analyzes the trajectory of German politics and culture during a century of extremes.

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0190070641

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9780190070649

The New Sufferings of Young W.

A Novel

By: Ulrich Plenzdorf

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The New Sufferings of Young W.

A Novel

By: Ulrich Plenzdorf

Edgar, a seventeen-year-old "model youth," fed up with conformity, drops out and runs away to Berlin to pursue the things he has always wanted to do

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Burns & Oates

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0804466564

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The New Sorrows of Young W.

The New Sorrows of Young W.

The New Sufferings of Young W.

The New Sufferings of Young W.

The New Sorrows of Young W.

The New Sorrows of Young W.

A History of Twentieth-century Germany

A History of Twentieth-century Germany

The New Sufferings of Young W.

The New Sufferings of Young W.

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