Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson

14 in stock

193mm x 123mm x 8mm

Pages: 112

A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupationGÇöand, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime mannersGÇöComedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple who first hide a Jew they know as Nico, then must dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia. This novella, first published in 1947 and now translated into English for the first time, shows Hans Keilson at his best: deeply ironic, penetrating, sympathetic, and brilliantly modern, an heir to Joseph Roth and Franz Kafka. In 2008, when Keilson received GermanyGÇÖs prestigious Welt Literature Prize, the citation praised his work for exploring Gǣthe destructive impulse at work in the twentieth century, down to its deepest psychological and spiritual ramifications.Gǥ

Published to celebrate KeilsonGÇÖs hundredth birthday, Comedy in a Minor Key GÇö and The Death of the Adversary, reissued in paperback GÇö will introduce American readers to a forgotten classic author, a witness to World War II and a sophisticated storyteller whose books remain as fresh as when they first came to light.