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portada The New Sorrows of Young W.
Type
Physical Book
Year
2015
Language
English
Pages
160
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
16.3 x 11.7 x 1.5 cm
Weight
0.14 kg.
ISBN13
9781782270942

The New Sorrows of Young W.

Ulrich Plenzdorf (Author) · Pushkin Collection · Paperback

The New Sorrows of Young W. - Plenzdorf, Ulrich

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Synopsis "The New Sorrows of Young W."

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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