The New Sorrows of Young W

A highly acclaimed, funny and smart classic: the German Catcher in the Rye

About the author

Ulrich Plenzdorf was born in Berlin in 1934, and studied Philosophy and Film in Leipzig. In the early 1970s, he achieved fame with the much acclaimed The New Sorrows of Young W., considered a modern classic of German literature and taught in classrooms across Germany. From 2004 onwards, Plenzdorf was a guest lecturer at the German Institute of Literature in Leipzig. An award-winning and much celebrated author and dramatist, he died in 2007.Romy Fursland is a translator from German and French. After studying Modern Languages at Oxford University she went on to obtain an MA in Literary Translation from the University of East Anglia, writing her dissertation on The New Sorrows of Young W. She has translated several stage plays, poetry, and essays and dramatic fragments by Bertolt Brecht. She lives in Norwich.

Summary

A highly acclaimed, funny and smart classic: the German Catcher in the Rye

Foreword

A highly acclaimed, funny and smart classic: the German Catcher in the Rye

Product details

• Authors: Ulrich Plenzdorf, Plenzdorf Ulrich
• Assisted by: Romy Fursland (Translation), Fursland Romy (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.05.2018
• EAN: 9781782274452
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-445-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Pushkin Blues
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general