Austrian novelist and essayist Torberg (1908-79) recalled the coffeehouse scene in Vienna during his youth in the 1975 Tante Jolesch, and augmented it with a second volume in 1987. The English translation follows the format of the first, adding interesting anecdotes from the second. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Tante Jolesch or the Decline of the West in Anecdotes (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, And Thought. Translation Series)

History

Torberg, Friedrich

World

Ariadne Pr

Kurt Gerber embarks hopefully on his last year at school, leading to the all-important exam, but finds that he is constantly at odds with the sadistic class teacher Professor Kupfer, known to his students as "Lord God Kupfer", who particularly dislikes him. Inspired partly by its author’s own experience of his final school-leaving examination, which he passed only at the second attempt, and partly by the suicides of no less than ten school students in a single week in the winter of 1929, Young Gerber is a timeless tale of classroom angst, and an undisputed classic of Austrian literature. Pushkin Collection editions feature a spare, elegant series style and superior, durable components. The Collection is typeset in Monotype Baskerville, litho-printed on Munken Premium White Paper and notch-bound by the independently owned printer TJ International in Padstow. The covers, with French flaps, are printed on Colorplan Pristine White Paper. Both paper and cover board are acid-free and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified.

Young Gerber (Pushkin Collection)

Romance

Pushkin Press

Used. Very Good conditions. May have soft reading marks and name of the previous owner.

Die Tante Jolesch: Oder, Der Untergang des Abendlandes in Anekdoten (His Gesammelte Werke in Einzelausgaben ; Bd. 8) (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Langen/Müller

Die Erben der Tante Jolesch (His Gesammelte Werke in Einzelausgaben ; Bd. 9) (German Edition)

Die Tante Jolesch /Die Erben der Tante Jolesch: Oder der Untergang des Abendlandes in Anekdoten. Doppelband

Langen - Mueller Verlag

Die Tante Jolesch oder Der Untergang des Abendlandes in Anekdoten

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Anaconda Verlag

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