German Short Stories 2

by Siegfried Lenz, Günter de Bruyn, Thomas Bernhard, et al.

Book Overview

The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural backgrounds. Styles include the non-fictional manner of Kluge's montage technique and the contrasting classical storytelling of Penzoldt.

With reading notes and parallel texts in German and English, this anthology is valuable to the German student of English as well as the English student...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140041192
• ISBN13: 9780140041194
• Release Date: September 1976
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Great for getting comfortable with written German.

This little book is a collection of charming short stories. One can either read them or study them closely to enlarge vocabulary and learn to understand grammer. It is also a good exercise in the use of synonyms.

An enjoayble way of improving your German

As an intermediate learner of German, I have found the book very useful in that it provides parallel translation as you go (the left page is in German and the right one in English). The translation is superb. The selected stories are finest examples of the contemporary German literature, Let the book carry you away and polish your German at the same time! :o)