Nobodaddy's Children

Arno Schmidt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2025
Dalkey Archive Press (Verlag)
978-1-62897-456-0 (ISBN)

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Nobodaddy's Children is a trilogy of novels that traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of a Faun recounts the dreary life of a government worker who escapes the banality of war by researching the exploits of a deserter from the Napoleonic Wars nicknamed The Faun. Brand's Heath deals with the chaos of the immediate postwar period as a writer joins a small community of "survivors" to try to forge a new life, and Dark Mirrors is set in a future where civilization has been virtually destroyed. Dark Mirrors' narrator fears he may be the last man on earth until the discovery of another creates new fears. All three novels are characterized by Schmidt's unique combination of sharply observed details, sarcastic asides, and wide erudition.

Arno Schmidt (1914–1979) was born in the working-class suburb of Hamburg-Hamm, Germany. Drafted into the army in 1940, he served in the artillery at a flak base in Norway until the end of the war. After being held as a prisoner of war for eight months, he worked briefly as an interpreter for the British military police. His first book, Leviathan, was published in 1949. In 1958 Schmidt moved to the village of Bargfeld near Celle. Over the next twenty years, until his death, he wrote some of the landmarks of postwar German literature, many of which are available in translation from Dalkey Archive Press.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.3.2025
Reihe/Serie	Dalkey Essentials Series
Übersetzer	John E. Woods
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Normal, IL
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
ISBN-10	1-62897-456-7 / 1628974567
ISBN-13	978-1-62897-456-0 / 9781628974560
Zustand	Neuware