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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Wright, Patrick (1951-....)
Titre(s) : The sea view has me again [Texte imprimé] : Uwe Johnson in Sheerness / Patrick Wright ; with translations from the German by Damion Searls
Publication : London : Repeater Books, 2020
Description matérielle : 733 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and indexes
The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war
writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s. In 1974,
a strange man called "Charles" arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle
of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern,
drinking beer and smoking Gaulloises while flicking through the Kent Evening Post.
But who was this unlikely newcomer? This "Charles" was in actual fact Uwe Johnson,
one of the greatest and most-influential East-German writers of the post-war period.
But what quirk of Cold War history had caused him to end up in Sheerness, when his
contemporaries had instead fled the DDR to Rome, New York or West Berlin? Drawn from
Johnson's letters to his friends Max Frisch, Hannah Arendt, Christa Wolf, and others,
as well as contemporary accounts and archival materials, this intriguing mix of literary
and cultural history and memoir uncovers the last ten years of Johnson's life as it
was in Sheerness, set against the backdrop of the social and cultural upheaval of
the late 1970s
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Searls, Damion. Traducteur
Sujet(s) : Johnson, Uwe (1934-1984) -- Résidences et lieux familiers -- Angleterre (GB)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781912248605. - ISBN 1912248603. - ISBN 9781913462581. - ISBN 1913462587. -
ISBN 9781912248759 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb470517986
Notice n° :
FRBNF47051798
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