The Resource All for nothing, Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell ; introduction by Jenny Erpenbeck
All for nothing, Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell ; introduction by Jenny Erpenbeck
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- Summary
- "The last novel by one of Germany's most important postwar writers, All for Nothing was published in Germany in 2006, just before Walter Kempowski's death. It describes with matter-of-fact clarity and acuity, and a roving point of view, the atmosphere in East Prussia during the winter of 1944-1945 as the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army approaches. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into a state of disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-yearold son, Peter. As the road beside the house fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof receives strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee--but life continues in the main as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the main characters, until their caution, their hedged bets and provisions, their wondering, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine"--
- Language
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- eng
- ger
- eng
- Label
- All for nothing
- Title
- All for nothing
- Statement of responsibility
- Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell ; introduction by Jenny Erpenbeck
- Subject
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- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- FICTION -- Family Life
- FICTION -- Psychological
- FICTION -- War & Military
- Families
- Families -- Germany -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Germany
- Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction
- Social conditions
- War stories
- War stories
- War stories
- World War (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Fiction
- 1933-1945
- Language
-
- eng
- ger
- eng
- Summary
- "The last novel by one of Germany's most important postwar writers, All for Nothing was published in Germany in 2006, just before Walter Kempowski's death. It describes with matter-of-fact clarity and acuity, and a roving point of view, the atmosphere in East Prussia during the winter of 1944-1945 as the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army approaches. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into a state of disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-yearold son, Peter. As the road beside the house fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof receives strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee--but life continues in the main as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the main characters, until their caution, their hedged bets and provisions, their wondering, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine"--
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- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kempowski, Walter
- Dewey number
- 833/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PT2671.E43
- LC item number
- A7713 2018
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Bell, Anthea
- Erpenbeck, Jenny
- Series statement
- New York Review Books Classics
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Germany
- World War, 1939-1945
- Families
- War stories
- FICTION
- FICTION
- FICTION
- World War (1939-1945)
- War stories
- Families
- Social conditions
- Germany
- Label
- All for nothing, Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell ; introduction by Jenny Erpenbeck
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn987429963
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- xiv, 343 pages
- Isbn
- 9781681372051
- Lccn
- 2017046080
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)987429963
- Label
- All for nothing, Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell ; introduction by Jenny Erpenbeck
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn987429963
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- xiv, 343 pages
- Isbn
- 9781681372051
- Lccn
- 2017046080
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)987429963
Subject
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- FICTION -- Family Life
- FICTION -- Psychological
- FICTION -- War & Military
- Families
- Families -- Germany -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Germany
- Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction
- Social conditions
- War stories
- War stories
- War stories
- World War (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Fiction
- 1933-1945
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