The Film Explainer

Hofmann, Gert

ISBN 10: 0810112930 / ISBN 13: 9780810112933

Verlag: Northwestern University Press (edition Translated), 1996

With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0810112930-7-1-29

Inhaltsangabe:

It is the early 1930s in Limbach, an industrial village suffering from the depression. Karl Hofmann narrates silent movies at the local cinema. The job pays poorly and is largely unnecessary, as the films have subtitles and the crowds are small, but Karl sees himself as an artist: he is convinced only his explanation will make the movies accessible to the ever-shrinking audience. When the "talkies" arrive and he loses his job after a quarrel with the Jewish theater owner, Karl loses his sense of purpose and joins the Nazi Party--the first step toward his horrible end.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the Independent's Foreign Fiction Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His reviews and criticism are gathered in Behind the Lines (2001).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Film Explainer
Verlag: Northwestern University Press (edition Translated)
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Fair
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
Auflage: Translated.