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New York. 1966. Grove Press. 1st American Printing. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears. Translated From German by Ralph Manheim. 190 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Germany. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Sergeant Gauthier Bachmann is the perfect Nazi soldier. But after a horrifying defeat at Voroshenko, where most of his Eighth Hessian Infantry Regiment was slaughtered in a single instant, Bachmann was declared mentally unfit to serve. Incapable of accepting this judgment, and of returning to his girlfriend and a quiet life as a gold-and silversmith, Bachmann wanders the war-ravaged countryside, trying to find a way to rejoin his regiment, or any regiment, and return to the front. While trying to find his regiment and come to terms with the horrors he has seen and committed, the increasingly unstable Bachmann is manipulated by a series of figures from the underbelly of war's underbelly-deserters and collaborators, corrupt officers and sexual predators-who induce him to carry out their venal missions, which they've justified against the background of institutionalized murder going on all around them. Containing dark echoes of Jaroslav Haek's The Good Soldier vejk, Jakov Lind's Landscape in Concrete is an ‘astonishing and highly original imagining of (the) dimensions of evil including sadistic cruelty, of the condition of being a victim and the madness abroad which constitutes the virtual victory of Hitler if we fail to translate survival into freedom' (Anthony Rudolf). inventory #5317.
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Fair. POCKET 1968, first printing, (75236), Vintage copy with great cover art. mild water staining on edge of pages/endpages. Good solid paperback with moderate reading/age wear, may have some light markings, pages may have some mild tanning. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.
