Käsebier Takes Berlin

Gabriele Tergit

Original title: Käsebier erobert den Kürfurstendamm

first published 1977 New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The, 2019 304 pages

"In English for the first time, a biting satirical novel about an untalented, self-delusioned celebrity who seduces all of Weimar Berlin. In Berlin, 1930, the name Kasebier is on everyone's lips. A literal combination of the German words for "cheese" and "beer," it's an unglamorous name for an unglamorous man--a small-time crooner who performs nightly on a shabby stage for laborers, secretaries, and shopkeepers. Unti...

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