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The Sea View Has Me Again - Uwe Johnson in Sheerness (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Sea View Has Me Again - Uwe Johnson in Sheerness (Hardcover, New edition)
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The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and
most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work
in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s. In 1974, a strange man called
"Charles" arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of
Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the
Napier Tavern, drinking beer and smoking Gaulloises while flicking
through the Kent Evening Post. But who was this unlikely newcomer?
This "Charles" was in actual fact Uwe Johnson, one of the greatest
and most-influential East-German writers of the post-war period.
But what quirk of Cold War history had caused him to end up in
Sheerness, when his contemporaries had instead fled the DDR to
Rome, New York or West Berlin? Drawn from Johnson's letters to his
friends Max Frisch, Hannah Arendt, Christa Wolf, and others, as
well as contemporary accounts and archival materials, this
intriguing mix of literary and cultural history and memoir uncovers
the last ten years of Johnson's life as it was in Sheerness, set
against the backdrop of the social and cultural upheaval of the
late 1970s.
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