Life Goes On: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (716 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374191956 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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He died at the age of one hundred and one.. Shortly afterward, following his editor's advice, Keilson emigrated to the Netherlands, where he would spend the rest of his life.Life Goes On is an essential volume for readers of Keilson's later work. Published when the author was just twenty-three, Life Goes On was Hans Keilson's literary debut, an extraordinary autobiographical novel that paints a dark yet illuminating portrait of Germany between the world wars. It is the story of Herr Seldersena Jewish store owner modeled on Keilson's father, a textile merchant and deco
Excellent Amy S. Khoudari This is an amazing book. It is a beautiful elegy of a sad and dangerous time. The afterword makes it evident that this work is largely autobiographical. A fascinating read for anyone interested in the challenges of the interwar years and the rise National Socialism. Furthermore, it is amazingly relevant to our current economic circums. Pat said Pre WWII novel of life in Germany. The book gives a good background to the time of the Weimar Republic, however it is dull.The language used is boring, there is duplication, little movement and only a couple of characters are developed and interesting.. wtwieder said Highly recommended. Very unusual and stirring. The style and narrative perspective are different and strangely affecting. Regret that we English speakers came to Keilson so late.
Hans Keilson is the author of Comedy in a Minor Key and The Death of the Adversary. Born in Germany in 1909, he published his first novel in 1933. Later, as a psychotherapist, he pioneered the treatment of war trauma in children.. During World War II he joined the Dutch resistance
Despite his strict financial management, the shopkeeper’s business continues in a downward spiral, and his despair deepens. Herr Seldersen returns unharmed from the Great War to continue operating his textile shop only to find his customers losing jobs and his trade dwindling. Together with Keilson’s other two novels (Comedy in a Minor Key,1947, and The Death of the Adversary, 1959), reprinted in English translation in 2010, this book illuminates the entire life of the renowned author, who died, at age 101, in 2011. Banned in Germany in 1934, the year after it was published, this novel is unrelentingly depressing in describing the climate in which Nazism began to flourish. Meanwhile