by Wolfgang Borchert · Rowohlt Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499109751
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«Die traurigen Geranien und andere Geschichten aus dem Nachlaß» is the short story collection by Wolfgang Borchert, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch in paperback.
The volume brings together eighteen short stories rescued from the author's estate. With restrained prose and little external action, Borchert points to intimate catastrophes and makes the unsettling appear in the familiar and everyday; a minimum of elements suffices to move.
This Rowohlt Taschenbuch edition was prepared by Peter Rühmkorf, who wrote the afterword, and was published in 1975. Text in German.
Recommended for readers of short fiction and German literature, as well as for those who want to discover Borchert's work.
Wolfgang Borchert was a German author and playwright whose work was strongly influenced by his experience of dictatorship and his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. His work is among the best-known examples of the Trümmerliteratur movement in post-World War II Germany. His most famous work is the drama Draußen vor der Tür (The Man Outside), which he wrote soon after the end of World War II. His works are uncompromising on the issues of humanity and humanism. He is one of the most popular authors of the German postwar period; his work continues to be studied in German schools.
