The Father of a Murderer (Hardcover)

The Father of a Murderer takes place in a classroom of the Wittelsbach Gymnasium in 1920s Munich over the course of a single Greek lesson. Head-master Himmler (the father of Heinrich Himmler) enters the classroom, apparently to observe the students' progress. However, he soon takes over the lesson himself. Himmler mercilessly tests the boys, but his real purpose is to teach a political lesson to the German youths, and through them to settle accounts with their fathers. In the venerable tradition of German school novels (Musil's Young Torless and Heinrich Mann's Professor Garbage), this tale can be read as an account of routine academic sadism, but the essence of the story lies in the fine nuances of speech, thought, and behavior that illustrate, in the most sophisticated way, how the rise of Hitler was possible. Never before translated into English, this chilling novel was Andersch's final work. Published posthumously in German in 1980, it is considered by many to be his masterpiece.

General

Imprint:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1995
First published:	April 1994
Authors:	Alfred Andersch
Translators:	Leila Vennewitz
Dimensions:	193 x 127 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	95
ISBN-13:	978-0-8112-1261-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
LSN:	0-8112-1261-0
Barcode:	9780811212618

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