Young Gerber / Friedrich Torberg ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell
- Author:
- Torberg, Friedrich, 1908-1979
- Uniform Title:
- Schüler Gerber. English
- Published:
- London : Pushkin Press, 2012.
- Physical Description:
- 349 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. I God Almighty Kupfer -- ch. II Entry of the Gladiators. Strike the Gong -- ch. III Three Encounters -- ch. IV Meditations on x -- ch. V The Palfrey Stumbles -- ch. VI A Young Man Called Kurt Gerber -- ch. VII Kurt Gerber, Number 7 -- ch. VIII The Hard Path to Failure -- ch. IX "Wednesday at Ten", a Trashy Novel -- ch. X A Storm on Two Fronts -- ch. XI The Palfrey Collapses.
- Summary:
- "Kurt Gerber embarks enthusiastically on his last year at school, determined to focus on that all-important final exam. He soon finds, however, he is constantly at odds with his sadistic teacher, Professor Kupfer, known to the students as 'Lord God Kupfer.' Inspired by the real-life suicides of ten school peers during one week in 1929, Young Gerber is a timeless tale of classroom angst"--Amazon.com.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781906548896 (pbk.)
1906548897 (pbk.)
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