The Class (Dedalus European Classics) - Softcover

Ungar, Hermann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903517192 ISBN 13: 9781903517192

Verlag: Dedalus Ltd, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Josef Blau is a high school teacher who comes from a poor background, poorer than that of most of his pupils. The insecurity this causes him leads to an obsession with order and discipline. He senses his pupils watching him, waiting for the slightest weakness; the least infringement, he feels, will lead to the complete collapse of his tightly ordered world. The other focus of his obsession is his attractive wife. Despite all the evidence and her assurances, he cannot believe she will be faithful to him. He forces her to shave her hair and wear clothes that are no more than shapeless sacks, yet still cannot conquer his fears. Catastrophe is looming and, once the first breach is made, inevitable. 'We are all schoolchildren', Blau says, 'in one great class.'

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Hermann Ungar (1893-1929) was a German-speaking Jew from Moravia who was active as a writer in Berlin and Prague in the 1920s. Critics spoke of him in the same breath as Kafka, and he was feted in France after the publication of the translation of The Maimed in 1928. After the war he was forgotten in Germany, despite praise from individual writers, but the reissue of the French translation in 1987 was again greeted with enthusiastic reviews: "Herman Ungar is a great writer, unique . . . No history of literature should ignore his works."

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dedalus Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1903517192
• ISBN 13: 9781903517192
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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