Youth Without God
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Auteur:
Odon Von Horvath
Odon Von Horvath
Co-auteur:
Odon Von Horvath
Von Horvath, Odon
- Engels
- Losbladig
- 9781612191195
- 30 oktober 2012
- 165 pagina's
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Written in exile while in flight from the Nazis, this dark, bizarre evocation of everyday life under fascism is available for the first time in thirty years.
This last book by Ödön von Horváth, one of the 20th-centurys great but forgotten writers, is a dark fable about guilt, fate, and the individual conscience.
An unnamed narrator in an unnamed country is a schoolteacher with a safe job with a pension at the end of it. But, when he reprimands a student for a racist comment, he is accused of sabotage of the Fatherland, and his students revolt. A murder follows, and the teacher must face his role in it, even if it costs him everything.
Horváths book both points to its immediate contextthe brutalizing conformity of a totalitarian state, the emptiness of faith in the time of the National Socialistsand beyond, to the struggles of individuals everywhere against societies that offer material security in exchange for the abandonment of ones convictions. Reminiscent of Camus The Stranger in its themes and its style, Youth Without God portrays a world of individual ruthlessness and collective numbness to the appeals of faith or morality.
And yet, a commitment to the truth lifts the teacher and a small band of like-minded students out of this deepening abyss. Its a reminder that such commitment did exist in those troubled timesindeed, theyre what led the author to flee Germany, first for Austria, and then France, where he met his death in a tragic accident, just two years after the publication of Youth Without God. Long out of print, this new edition resurrects a bracing and still-disturbing vision.
Horváth was telling the truth. Furiously. Shalom Auslander
This last book by Ödön von Horváth, one of the 20th-centurys great but forgotten writers, is a dark fable about guilt, fate, and the individual conscience.
An unnamed narrator in an unnamed country is a schoolteacher with a safe job with a pension at the end of it. But, when he reprimands a student for a racist comment, he is accused of sabotage of the Fatherland, and his students revolt. A murder follows, and the teacher must face his role in it, even if it costs him everything.
Horváths book both points to its immediate contextthe brutalizing conformity of a totalitarian state, the emptiness of faith in the time of the National Socialistsand beyond, to the struggles of individuals everywhere against societies that offer material security in exchange for the abandonment of ones convictions. Reminiscent of Camus The Stranger in its themes and its style, Youth Without God portrays a world of individual ruthlessness and collective numbness to the appeals of faith or morality.
And yet, a commitment to the truth lifts the teacher and a small band of like-minded students out of this deepening abyss. Its a reminder that such commitment did exist in those troubled timesindeed, theyre what led the author to flee Germany, first for Austria, and then France, where he met his death in a tragic accident, just two years after the publication of Youth Without God. Long out of print, this new edition resurrects a bracing and still-disturbing vision.
Horváth was telling the truth. Furiously. Shalom Auslander
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- 30 oktober 2012
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- 165
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- Odon Von Horvath
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- Odon Von Horvath
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- Von Horvath, Odon
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- Melville House Publishing
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- 127 mm
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- 201 mm
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- 12.900 mm
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- 202 mm
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- 20.300 mm
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- 180 g
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- 9781612191195
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