by Edgar Hilsenrath · Contemporary French Fiction · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782757818022
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«Fuck America» is the satirical novel by Edgar Hilsenrath, published by Contemporary French Fiction in paperback (279 pages, in French).
Jakob Bronsky, newly arrived in the United States, roams the most degraded New York of the 1950s. He doesn't understand the American dream; all he cares about is sex and writing a novel about the Jewish ghettos. With corrosive humor and absurd situations, Hilsenrath portrays a society and dismantles clichés.
This is a French edition translated from German by Jörg Stickan. The work was originally published in 1980 as «Bronskys Geständnis». The edition won the Prix Mémoire des libraires Initiales 2009.
Intended for the general public interested in contemporary fiction, black humor, and social satire.
Edgar Hilsenrath was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor. He wrote several novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. His main works are Night, The Nazi and the Barber, and The Story of the Last Thought. After fleeing Nazi Germany in 1944, he lived in Palestine and France, before settling in New York City in 1951 where he lived for 24 years and published his first novels. Although he was a naturalized United States citizen, he chose to return to Germany in 1975 where he lived until his death in 2018.
