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Leavetaking - Weiss, Peter, and Levenson, Christopher (Translated by)
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"I was on my way to look for a life of my own." A brilliant, brutally honest autobiographical novel, long out of print, from one of the great artistic polymaths of the 20th century. This is a Sebaldian account of the narrator's attempt to break free of a repressive upper-middle-class upbringing and make his way as an artist and individual, written in a single incantatory paragraph. Leavetaking is the story of an upper-middle-class childhood and adolescence in Berlin between the wars. In the course of the book, Weiss ...

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Leavetaking 2014, Melville House Publishing

ISBN-13: 9781612193311

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