Description
In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the "The Joys of Duty." Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, a constable, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist artist from painting and to seize all his "degenerate" work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. "I was trying to find out," Lenz says, "where the joys of duty could lead a people."
Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins
Author: Siegfried Lenz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 03/30/2021
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780811222013
ISBN10: 0811222012
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | World War II