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Hothouse

Inglese · Tascabile

Pubblicazione il 01.04.2026

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The Hothouse traces the tragic final two days in the life of a minor German politician, Keetenheuve, a man disillusioned by the corruption of his country after the Second World War. Following his self-imposed exile during the war, Keetenheuve returns to the hothouse: the city of Bonn, the capital of that new postwar capitalist nation, West Germany. Until this point he has led a life guided by principle and political optimism. Here, in spellbinding internal monologue and jarring montage, he meets his end. The Hothouse is an existential masterpiece and a portrait of a moral man crushed by an immoral world. Bitterly controversial at home, a cult writer abroad, Koeppen (1906-1996) brought a volcanic modernist style to German literature that remains unparalleled to this day. His uniquely radical voice and breathtaking prose is rendered magnificently by Michael Hofmann.


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Wolfgang Koeppen (1906-1996) was born in Greifswald and died in Munich. He worked as a junior chef, a dramaturge, and an editor. In 1951, 1953 and 1954 three novels were published to high acclaim for accurately capturing the atmosphere of the republic under Konrad Adenauer: Pigeons on the Grass, The Hothouse, and Death in Rome.


Dettagli sul prodotto

Autori Wolfgang Koeppen
Con la collaborazione di Michael Hofmann (Traduzione)
Editore New Directions
 
Contenuto Libro
Forma del prodotto Tascabile
Data pubblicazione 01.04.2026
Categoria Narrativa > Romanzi
 
EAN 9780811240000
ISBN 978-0-8112-4000-0
Numero di pagine 240
 
Categorie Literature - Classics / Criticism
FICTION / World Literature / Germany / 20th Century
FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II & Holocaust
 

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