Castle Gripsholm

Tucholsky, Kurt 1890-1935 (author.). Hofmann, Michael, 1957- (translator.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781681373355
ISBN: 1681373343
ISBN: 9781681373348
ISBN: 9781681373348 : PAP
ISBN: 1681373343 : PAP
Physical Description: 127 pages ; 21 cm.
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Publisher: New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
Copyright: ©1985

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"Castle Gripsholm, the best and most beloved work by Kurt Tucholsky, is a short novel about an enchanted summer holiday. It begins with an assignment: Tucholsky's publisher wants him to write something light and funny, otherwise about whatever Tucholsky wants. A deal is struck and the story is off: about Peter, a writer; his girlfriend, known as the Princess; and a summer vacation far from the hurly-burly of Berlin. Peter and the Princess have rented a small house attached to a historic castle in Sweden, and they have five weeks of long days and white nights at their disposal; five weeks for swimming and walking and sex and talking and visits with Peter's buddy Karlchen and with Billy, the Princess's best friend. It is perfect, until they meet a weeping girl fleeing the cruel headmistress of a home for children. The vacationers decide they must free the girl and send her back to her mother in Switzerland, which brings about an encounter with authority that casts a worrying shadow over their radiant summer idyll. Soon they must return to Germany. What kind of fairy tale are they living in?"--