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After Midnight, Keun, Irmgard, Translated by Anthea Bell. Published by Victor Gollancz, London, 1985. Yellow cloth boards, gilt spine titles. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 152 pages. Volume is in mint condition without marks, tears or folds; unclipped dustjacket has light ruffling top edge and otherwise in fine condition. Very scarce in hardcover. In 1937, German author Irmgard Keun had only recently fled Nazi Germany with her lover Joseph Roth when she wrote this slim, exquisite, and devastating book. It captures the unbearable tension, contradictions, and hysteria of pre-war Germany like no other novel. Yet even as it exposes human folly, the book exudes a hopeful humanism. It is full of humor and light, even as it describes the first moments of a nightmare. After Midnight is a masterpiece that deserves to be read and remembered anew.Rmgard Keun (1905–1982) became a sensation in her native Germany with the 1931 publication of her first novel, Gilgi, when she was 21. But her second novel, The Artificial…
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- Title After Midnight
- Author Keun, Irmgard
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Reprint
- Publisher Victor Gollancz
- Date 1987-08
- ISBN 9780575036567
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