German Short Stories 1: Parallel Text Edition (Parallel Text, Penguin) (German and English Edition) (v. 1) (0140020403) - Reviews and Prices
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German Short Stories 1: Parallel Text Edition (Parallel Text, Penguin) (German and English Edition) (v. 1) (0140020403) - Reviews and Prices
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Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form also matched perfectly the prevailing mood of irony, objectivity and mistrust of the didactic. With the original German text running alongside English translations, this collection features stories from eight outstanding post-war authors including Heinrich Boll, Ilse Aichinger and Reinhard Lettau which students will find both educational and engrossing. Boll's opening story 'Pale Anna' follows a soldier returning home, his situation comparable to that of the writer in the first months of peace: he knows no-one and has few words not linked to painful memories. This poignant narrative is followed by a variety of tales representing the diversity of the time and including satires, explorations of private obsessions and experiments in form and language.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Excellent:
This is a collection of eight great stories faced with a good translation. The translation is close enough to the text so that the reader can check up on any problems encountered in the German original. Being a bookworm myself I can say that there is nothing like reading practice to become fluent at a language. If you found that you didn't need to take recourse to the translation very often when reading this book then it's time for a German only book rather than a bilingual edition.
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Excellent Edition:
This was an excellent choice. The material was well presented, and I found the aesthetics of the book to be above average. I recently finished reading Herman Hesse's "Siddhartha" in both English and German (.Siddhartha - Bilingual Edition, German and English), and this was a great companion to that book. Highly recommended to all students of German and English.
Very Readable.:
Before I bought this book I thought it would be much harder to read but I find that I can get through the text without too much difficulty. The English translation maps to the German so that you can see how the same phrase or word matches up in both languages. Also, these short stories were written by some pretty high caliber authors. I was surprised at how well I could understand their writing.
Wonderful German short stories:
I received this book from Amazon last week and the stories are just plain wonderful. The literal translations are also very good, i.e., they are not literary translations, which means that for those who know german like myself the german text can be followed very easily ! In this book I "discovered" a few authors that I'd heard of but not read ( z.b., Gerd Gaiser with the story "Antigone und der Gartenzwerg" ). I strongly recommend this book for all people who seriously want to study german in an... more info
