Ernst Glaeser (1902–1963)
Autore di Class 1902
Sull'Autore
Opere di Ernst Glaeser
Das Unvergängliche. Erzählungen 3 copie
Die zerstörte Illusion 3 copie
Das Gut im Elsaß. Ein Roman 3 copie
The Cherry Feast 1 copia
Glanz und Elend der Deutschen 1 copia
Das Jahr 1 copia
Kiraz Bayramı 1 copia
Poslední civilista 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Ditschler, Anton (pseudonym)
Meschede, Erich (pseudonym)
Ruppel, Alexander (pseudonym)
Töpfer, Ernst (pseudonym) - Data di nascita
- 1902-07-29
- Data di morte
- 1963-02-08
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Germany
- Luogo di nascita
- Butzbach, Hessen, Deutschland
- Luogo di morte
- Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
- Luogo di residenza
- Butzbach, Hessen, Deutschland
Darmstadt, Hessen, Deutschland
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland
München, Bayern, Deutschland
Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland
Tschechoslowakei (mostra tutto 9)
Locarno, Tessin, Schweiz
Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz
München, Bayern, Deutschland - Attività lavorative
- writer
- Organizzazioni
- Reichsschrifttumskammer
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 14
- Utenti
- 74
- Popolarità
- #238,154
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 11
- Lingue
- 3
I had never heard of Ernst Glaeser before but I hope the reprinting of Class 1902 will make him known to a whole new audience. Anyone who has an interest in the First World War - or the literature of war in general - should read this book. While Remarque and Hemingway's classic novels concentrated on the horrors of the front and the necessity of sometimes making a separate peace, Glaeser's book is a little-known masterpiece about the home front in Germany, as seen through the eyes of a young boy as he watches the war, from the age of 12 to 16. Glaeser's hero, known simply as E., is often more interested in solving "the mystery" - adult sexuality - than he is in what's happening at the front. After witnessing a brutal sex act early in the story, E feels he doesn't want anything to do with sex, if that's the way it is. He equates it with a kind of murder. It isn't until a couple years later that he begins to understand that what he saw was not representative of the real "mystery." In the final pages of the book he finds himself on the precipice of solving the mystery. His innocence is indeed finally irrevocably lost, but not in the way you might expect. This book was first published eighty years ago in German. It made its English debut in 1929, the same year A Farewell to Arms was published. Hemingway called Glaeser's work "a damned good book." He was absolutely right. The translation, by Willa and Edwin Muir, was superb, and I doubt that much of anything was "lost in translation." E., Ferd and August emerge as very real and, even more importantly, sympathetic characters, boys in search of their place in an increasingly complex society as war looms on the horizon and finally descends with a vengeance that leaves them more concerned with finding enough to eat than with what's happening at either front, where their fathers are fighting and dying. Professor Horst Kruse's introduction is very helpful in putting Glaeser's book into a proper literary and cultural context. I cannot say enough about how absorbing and GOOD this book is. If you enjoyed Erich Maria Remarque's books about the Great War and the post-war era, then don't miss this one. - Tim Bazzett, author of Soldier Boy: At Play in the ASA… (altro)