by Martin Walser · Suhrkamp Verlag KG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518387528
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«Die Verteidigung der Kindheit» is the novel by German writer Martin Walser, published by Suhrkamp in paperback (519 pages, in German).
Alfred Dorn sees his childhood threatened by the passage of time and tries to preserve it by reconstructing the past, in a chronicle of everyday life in Germany between 1929 and 1987. Memory, love and resistance to change run through the novel.
The book was originally published in 1991; this 1993 paperback edition corresponds to number 2252 in the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch series.
For readers of contemporary German literature and for students of German seeking to read the work in its original language.
Martin Johannes Walser was a German writer, known especially as a novelist. He began his career as journalist for Süddeutscher Rundfunk, where he wrote and directed audio plays. He was a member of Group 47 from 1953 on.
