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An Offering for the Dead by Hans Erich Nossack, J.Neugroschel (Trans.)
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Overview: Hans Erich Nossack's work is a link between the titans of early 20th-century German fiction - Mann, Musil and Broch - and the later generation of Boll and Grass. An Offering for the Dead is a small, hard gem set in the crown of that tradition. "It was raining again," the narrator of this haunting novel begins. He has survived some unmentionable, perhaps worldwide cataclysm - a biblical flood? nuclear war? - that has stripped him of his memory and most everything else. A woman's room, a notebook, a mirror, her comb - these artifacts in a void are all that remain: his first clues to the past, his own and the world's. His errant musings, reminiscent of the guilt-driven wanderings of Orestes, gradually piece together a history he must both remember and create in order to regain his identity, and, like Noah, repopulate a world in which he may be the only survivor. In a delicately allusive prose that resonates with overtones of man's ancient past and darkly apocalyptic warnings, Nossack, like Joyce and Proust before him, exposes the mythical undercurrents of contemporary life. Past, present and future blend into an eternal return of archetypal figures whose stories transform human history into a timeless parable of creative memory and immemorial destruction.
A translation from the German of a work from 1947. This was right after the war, but it’s not about the horrors that occurred in Germany; instead it seems to be about nuclear Armageddon. We read of a blazing new star and that technology allows us to preserve life or to destroy it. Perhaps it also refers to the Allied firebombing of the author’s home town of Hamburg. This a short book (124 pages) without chapter breaks. In a dream-like, sleep-walking state, the narrator wanders through a city watching people in their ordinary lives. Perhaps he a ghost and they are still real or perhaps he is the last person alive and they are ghosts. He reflects back on his upbringing and his relations with his father, mother, brother and important people such as a favorite teacher. Even when he appears to awake, he has amnesia for who people are. There is reflection on clocks, time, images in mirrors, names, mass hallucination, war and the trauma it inflicts on people (which we would now call post-traumatic stress).
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
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Requirements: ePUB or MOBI Reader, 316 KB
Overview: Hans Erich Nossack's work is a link between the titans of early 20th-century German fiction - Mann, Musil and Broch - and the later generation of Boll and Grass. An Offering for the Dead is a small, hard gem set in the crown of that tradition. "It was raining again," the narrator of this haunting novel begins. He has survived some unmentionable, perhaps worldwide cataclysm - a biblical flood? nuclear war? - that has stripped him of his memory and most everything else. A woman's room, a notebook, a mirror, her comb - these artifacts in a void are all that remain: his first clues to the past, his own and the world's. His errant musings, reminiscent of the guilt-driven wanderings of Orestes, gradually piece together a history he must both remember and create in order to regain his identity, and, like Noah, repopulate a world in which he may be the only survivor. In a delicately allusive prose that resonates with overtones of man's ancient past and darkly apocalyptic warnings, Nossack, like Joyce and Proust before him, exposes the mythical undercurrents of contemporary life. Past, present and future blend into an eternal return of archetypal figures whose stories transform human history into a timeless parable of creative memory and immemorial destruction.
A translation from the German of a work from 1947. This was right after the war, but it’s not about the horrors that occurred in Germany; instead it seems to be about nuclear Armageddon. We read of a blazing new star and that technology allows us to preserve life or to destroy it. Perhaps it also refers to the Allied firebombing of the author’s home town of Hamburg. This a short book (124 pages) without chapter breaks. In a dream-like, sleep-walking state, the narrator wanders through a city watching people in their ordinary lives. Perhaps he a ghost and they are still real or perhaps he is the last person alive and they are ghosts. He reflects back on his upbringing and his relations with his father, mother, brother and important people such as a favorite teacher. Even when he appears to awake, he has amnesia for who people are. There is reflection on clocks, time, images in mirrors, names, mass hallucination, war and the trauma it inflicts on people (which we would now call post-traumatic stress).
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
Download Instructions:
(Closed Filehost) http://filescdn.com/lolvcbylsi8m
https://userscloud.com/djojzzs3cjvn
