Comedy in a Minor Key

English

ISBN: 0374126755

EAN: 9780374126759

Category: Fiction / Historical/Fiction / Jewish/

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Release Date: 07/31/2010

Synopsis: A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupationand, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple who first hide a Jew they know as Nico, then must dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia. This novella, first published in 1947 and now translated into English for the first time, shows Hans Keilson at his best: deeply ironic, penetrating, sympathetic, and brilliantly modern, an heir to Joseph Roth and Franz Kafka. In 2008, when Keilson received Germanys prestigious Welt Literature Prize, the citation praised his work for exploring the destructive impulse at work in the twentieth century, down to its deepest psychological and spiritual ramifications. Published to celebrate Keilsons hundredth birthday, Comedy in a Minor Keyand The Death of the Adversary, reissued in paperbackwill introduce American readers to a forgotten classic author, a witness to World War II and a sophisticated storyteller whose books remain as fresh as when they first came to light.

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Awards – null  New York Times Notable Books of the Year – null 

Comedy in a Minor Key

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.6 inches

Width: 5.16 inches

Length: 7.6 inches

Weight: 7.76 oz

Pages: 144