German Lesson
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: April 1, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780811209823
Subjects: Modern fiction; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Fiction - General; German; Fiction; Literary; Fiction / Literary
Description: Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, in one day assigned to write a routine German lesson on the 'The Joys of Duty.'Overfamiliar with these 'joys, ' Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, constable of the northernmost police station in Germany, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist, their neighbor, from paintings to keep them safe from his father.