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Nobodaddy's Children
Series: Dalkey Essentials Series
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Nobodaddy's Children is a trilogy of novels that traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of a Faun recounts the dreary life of a government worker who escapes the banality of war...
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Description
Nobodaddy's Children is a trilogy of novels that traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future.
Scenes from the Life of a Faun recounts the dreary life of a government worker who escapes the banality of war by researching the exploits of a deserter from the Napoleonic Wars nicknamed The Faun.
Brand's Heath deals with the chaos of the immediate postwar period as a writer joins a small community of "survivors" to try to forge a new life.
Dark Mirrors is set in a future where civilization has been virtually destroyed. The narrator of Dark Mirrors fears he may be the last man on earth until the discovery of another creates new fears.
All three novels are characterized by Schmidt's unique combination of sharply observed details, sarcastic asides, and wide erudition.
Series: Dalkey Essentials Series
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781628974560
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 17 April 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Translated by John E. Woods
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 250g
About the Author
Arno Schmidt(19141979) was born in the working-class suburb of Hamburg-Hamm, Germany. Drafted into the army in 1940, he served in the artillery at a flak base in Norway until the end of the war. After being held as a prisoner of war for eight months, he worked briefly as an interpreter for the British military police. His first book,Leviathan, was published in 1949. In 1958 Schmidt moved to the village of Bargfeld near Celle. Over the next twenty years, until his death, he wrote some of the landmarks of postwar German literature, many of which are available in translation from Dalkey Archive Press.
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