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The Living are Few, the Dead Many

Selected Works of Hans Henny Jahnn

ISBN-13: 9781900565592

Author(s): Hans Henny Jahnn

Subjects: FBC, FBN, FC

Publisher: Atlas Press

Publisher Imprint: Atlas Press

Publication Date: 08-11-2012

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£12.00
The Living are Few, the Dead Many

About the book

The inter-war literary scene in Europe was ripe with Gothic Romanticism and modernist literary Expressionism a la Doblin and Joyce. Hans Henny Jahnn created a 'crazed marriage' between these two in his personal cries of existential horror and guilt. Jahnn had both a repulsion and a fascination for mortality, which was reinforced by his unconventional sexuality and by his philosophy that celebrated all aspects of life and death. The Living are Few, the Dead Many features a selection of Jahnn's works, including The Night of Lead, which is his most renowned work in Germany.