Wilhelm Raabe - 'The Birdsong Papers' (Paperback)

The Birdsong Papers, which appeared in 1896 as Die Akten des Vogelsangs, was Wilhelm Raabe's next-to-last completed narrative. What might be called an anti-Bildungsroman, it is widely considered to be the work that secures Raabe's place as a precursor of German modernist fiction writers. Its tone is critical of late-nineteenth-century society, both German and American, with its industrial expansion, urbanization, pursuit of wealth, and erosion of conventional values; but this critical tone also produces an uneasy tension for its narrator, Karl Krumhardt, a high-ranking bureaucrat with a stake in the stability of that society. It is against that social-critical background that Krumhardt's Papers record a coming to terms with a subject - his longtime friend Velten Andres - whose life both fascinates and profoundly unsettles him.

General

Imprint:	Modern Humanities Research Association
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	October 2013
Translators:	Michael Ritterson
Introduction by:	Ritchie Robertson
Authors:	Wilhelm Raabe
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	156
ISBN-13:	978-1-78188-036-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	1-78188-036-0
Barcode:	9781781880364

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