The Dead Girls' Class Trip Selected Stories - New York Review Books Classics

Best known for her anti-fascist novels such as The Seventh Cross and the existential thriller Transit, Anna Seghers was also a gifted storyteller. The short stories she wrote throughout her life portray her social and mythic vision, and constitute an important and fascinating element of her work. This selection of Seghers's best stories, written between 1925 and 1965, reflects the range of her creativity over the years and includes her most famous stories, such as the autobiographical "Dead Girls' Class Trip" (1946), as well as those translated into English for the first time, like "Jans Must Die" (1925). Here are psychologically penetrating stories about young men corrupted by desperation and women bound by circumstance, as well as enigmatic tales of bewilderment and enchantment, stories based on myths and legends like "The Best Tales of Woynok the Thief" (1938), "The Legends of Artemis" (1938), and "The Three Trees" (1940). Seghers used the German language in especially unconventional and challenging ways in her stories, and Margot Bettauer Dembo's sensitive and skilled translation preserves this distinction.

ISBN:	9781681375359
Publisher:	New York Review Books
Imprint:	New York Review Books
Published date:	15 Jun 2021
DEWEY:	833.912
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xix, 302
Weight:	338g
Height:	130mm
Width:	202mm
Spine width:	21mm

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