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A German Master’s Modernist Epic of Postwar Amnesia and Hypocrisy

By Swedan Margen

A German Master’s Modernist Epic of Postwar Amnesia and Hypocrisy

Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure,” written from 1951 to 1954, is a sprawling, polyphonic portrait of a physically and morally shattered country.

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