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The Orphanage, The (Masks)

The Orphanage, The (Masks)

by HubertFichte (Author), M . Chalmers (Translator)

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    Paperback 1990

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Synopsis

Germany in 1942. Detlev has been placed by his mother in a Catholic orphanage. Here, he tries to make sense of the incomprehensible and inclement world outside. What is an orphan? Who was his father? What became of him? What do the dead look like? The dead killed in battle? The dead after an air raid? Why does God not stretch out a net to stop the bombs from falling? How did Christ suffer on the cross? What is a Jew? The Orphanage is the first of Hubert Fichte's works to be published in English.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 15 Feb 1990
ISBN 10: 1852421614
ISBN 13: 9781852421618

Media Reviews
?Hubert Fichte, whose work is little known outside Germany, is without a shadow of doubt one of the most individual and innovative European writers of the last twenty years? Jean-Luc Moreau, Magazine Litt?raire ?If I were to be asked who the most important German writers since the end of the Second World War were, I would be left with four names: Arno Schmidt, G?nter Grass, Uwe Johnson, Hubert Fichte? Hans Meyer, Neue Rundschau
Author Bio
Born in 1935 Hubert Fichte has long been recognized as one of the outstanding German writers of the 1960s. The posthumous publication in Germany of his nineteen-volume History of Sensitivity, a dialogue with Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, has established him as one of the great European writers of the twentieth century. He died in 1986.