A Sad Affair
Original title: A sad affair
Translated by Michael Hofmann earliest edition we have, 2003 W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 176 pages
"Set during the heady, pre-World War II days of cabaret-era Germany, the novel centers on the unrequited affair between Sibylle - a stunning seductress who strings along five men at a time - and Friedrich, the callow, melancholic youth who pursues her obsessively. In a series of episodic flashbacks, Koeppen, with a cinematic vividness and intensity that anticipate Beat literature by nearly twenty years, tracks the do...
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