Comedy in a Minor Key - Couverture souple

Keilson, Hans

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782279768 ISBN 13 : 9781782279761

Editeur : Pushkin Press Classics, 2024

Synopsis

When Wim and Marie, a young Dutch couple, agree to hide a Jewish man in their home during the Nazi occupation, they think they are fulfilling their patriotic duty. Tension and awkwardness reign in the house as they try to adapt to this forbidden guest, whom they know as Nico. Small accidents and unexpected encounters ensue as the dynamic unsettles all three - until Nico dies, and Wim and Marie must face the risky endeavour of disposing of his body. Taut, penetrating and rich with dark irony, Comedy in a Minor Key is a masterful study of human relationships under extreme circumstances.

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À propos de l?auteur

Hans Keilson (1909-2011) was a German-Dutch novelist, poet, psychoanalyst and child psychologist. Keilson studied pharmacology in Berlin but was prevented from working in the field by the Nazi law prohibiting Jews from employment. He published his first novel in 1933, which was banned by the Nazis the following year. In 1936, he fled Germany for the Netherlands, where he later became active in the resistance to the Nazi occupation. It was this experience that inspired his novel Comedy in a Minor Key, first published in German in 1947. Keilson went on to become a psychiatrist specialising in children's war trauma, and achieved great international recognition as a writer shortly before his death at the age of 101.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Press Classics
• Date d'édition: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1782279768
• ISBN 13: 9781782279761
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible