The young man

Botho Strauss

earliest edition we have, 1986 Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1987 hardcover 387 pages

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The writings of Botho Strauss examine the tension between the individual and society in the anonymity of the contemporary world. A theater director, playwright, and writer, Strauss broke with Berlin's leftist intellectual milieu in the late 1970s and turned to more personal topics; the result, and his response, inform The Young Man, a provocative work by a controversial German thinker. The young man of the title, Le...

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Editions we hold

The young man edition · 1995 · Hydra Books · 274 pages
Der junge Mann paperback · 1991 · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag · 9783423107747
The Young Man hardcover · 1990 · Alfred a Knopf · 9780394546483
Der junge Mann hardcover · 1987 · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag · 387 pages
Le jeune homme paperback · 1986 · Gallimard · 368 pages · 9782070707232

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