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The Class
Josef Blau is a high school teacher who comes from a poor background, poorer than that of most of his pupils. The insecurity this causes him leads to an obsession with order and discipline. He senses his pupils watching him, waiting for the slightest weakness; the least infringement, he feels, will lead to the complete collapse of this tightly ordered world. The other focus of his obsession is his attractive wife. Despite al the evidence and her assurances, he cannot believe she will be faithful to him. He forces her to shave her hair and wear clothes that are no more than shapeless sacks, yet still cannot conquer his fears. Catastrophe is looming and, once the first breach is made inevitable. 'We are all schoolchildren, ' Blau says, 'in one great class...
Hermann Ungar
Hermann Ungar, geboren 1893 in Boskowitz (M hren), gestorben 1929 in Prag, geh rt mit seinen realistischen Erz hlungen, Romanen und Dramen, in denen er ohne R cksicht auf Tabus die Abgr nde menschlicher Existenz erhellt, zu den bedeutendsten Vertretern der Prager deutschen Literatur. Die Edition S mtlicher Werke in drei B nden bietet erstmals in zuverl ssiger Textgestalt und kritisch kommentiert alle berlieferten Werke des Dichters und eine Auswahl seiner Briefe. Der vorliegende erste Band enth lt mit den Romanen Die Verst mmelten (1922) und Die Klasse (1927) Ungars Hauptwerke. Der Anfang des Romans Die Klasse: Er wu te, da die Blicke der Knaben ihn umlauerten, da jede Bl e, die er sich gab,...
Boys & Murderers
Presents a collection of short fiction that explores the human psyche.
The Maimed
Franz Polzer is a man who is dominated by irrational fears; even a friendly smile seems to conceal a hidden menace. He keeps the world at bay by organising his life according to the meticulous routine of his work as a bank clerk. He even rejects promotion because it brings the unknown that will threaten to upset his ordered existence. But this precarious order is disturbed by the sexual demands of his landlady. Once the first breach has occurred, he is dragged inexorably down into an abyss of degradation which ends in a grisly murder. The horror of Polzer's fall is emphasised by the matter-of-fact sobriety of Ungar's narrative style. For Stefan Zweig, The Maimed was wonderful and horrible, captivating and repulsive, unforgettable, although one would be glad to be able to forget it.
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The Boy from Boskovice
Vicky Unwin had always known her father – an erstwhile intelligence officer and respected United Nations diplomat – was Czech, but it was not until a stranger turned up on her doorstep that she discovered he was also Jewish. So began a quest to discover the truth about his past – one that perhaps would help answer the niggling doubts she had always had about her ‘perfect’ father. Finally persuading him to allow her to open a closely guarded cache of family books and papers, Vicky discovered the identity of her grandfather: the tormented author and diplomat Hermann Ungar, hugely controversial in both life and in death, who was a protégé and possible lover of Thomas Mann, and a fri...
Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought
Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levels—from the literal to the metaphorical. It combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central Europe of the twentieth century who are not usually connected, including Kafka, Kraus, Levi, Lustig, Wiesel, and Frankl. It follows the typical routes that exiled writers took, from East to West and later often as far as America. The concept and forms of exile are analyzed from many different points of view and great importance is devoted especially to the forms of inner exile. In Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought, Bronislava Volková, an exile herself and thus intimately familiar with the topic through her own experience, develops a unique typology of exile that will enrich the field of intellectual and literary history of twentieth-century Europe and America.
Hermann Ungar
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