A Doppelgeanger is the story of an unemployable ex-prisoner, told in a narrative framework of extraordinary originality and subtlety. The violent events of the earlier life of the doppelgeanger, pieced together after his death, are in sharp contrast to his daughter's tender childhood memories of him. The present translation is the first in English. Aquis submersus is another narrative tour de force linking the past with the present. The meaning of a mysterious inscription on a seventeenth-century portrait of a dead child is ...
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A Doppelgeanger is the story of an unemployable ex-prisoner, told in a narrative framework of extraordinary originality and subtlety. The violent events of the earlier life of the doppelgeanger, pieced together after his death, are in sharp contrast to his daughter's tender childhood memories of him. The present translation is the first in English. Aquis submersus is another narrative tour de force linking the past with the present. The meaning of a mysterious inscription on a seventeenth-century portrait of a dead child is gradually unraveled in the course of a story that is both a tragedy of passion and a historically masked critique of the landowning Junker class of Storm's own time. The translator's end-notes contain the wealth of historical and social background detail on the German North Sea coastal region, where these tales are set, that readers have found so absorbing in Denis Jackson's previous Storm editions.
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London. 2016. January 2016. Angel Books. 1st English Language Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780946162864. Translated from the German by Denis Jackson. 176 pages. paperback. keywords: Fiction. FROM THE PUBLISHER-‘The Doppelganger' is the story of a reformed ex-prisoner who finds himself an unemployable outcast in mid-19th-century north Germany. The stark events of his life, pieced together after his death, are in sharp contrast to his daughter's tender childhood memories of him. In ‘Aquis submersus, ' the meaning of a mysterious inscription on the portrait of a dead child is gradually unraveled in the course of a story that is both a powerful critique of the landowning Junker class and a tragedy of passion. Praise for Storm's previous work: ‘There is plenty of eerie Germanic mood here, but there is also a fine and tragic story of a man who follows his own path to its final, terrible end. '-Publishers Weekly. inventory #42742.
