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Theodor Storm
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Pages: 156 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0946162549
Pub: Angel Books
Pub date: 1996-08-22
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 213432
Reader Reviews:
One of the most celebrated works of German classic fiction. (4/4 people found this helpful)
"The Dykemaster' is the tale of a visionary young north Frisian 'Deichgraf' of the 18th century, creator of a new form of dyke. The short-sighted and self-seeking community with which he is at odds turns him into a phantom, seen riding his grey along the dyke whenever the sea threatens to break through. The rationalistic storyteller, in a highly sophisticated narrative structure, belongs to a later age, and what he relates is a veiled critique of the dyke officials of his own day.
The eerie west Schleswig-Holstein coast, with its vast, hallucinatory tidal flats, hushed polders and terrifying North Sea, is the setting for a tale which grips from first page to last with its dynamic tensions and shifts of focus, mood and pace. Storm's dense narrative further invites the reader to ask whether progress is possible, how the historical record is established and what parts are played by the rational and the irrational in human existence.
'this tremendous tale, with which Storm made his conception of the Novelle the epic sister of drama . . .' Thomas Mann
"An excellent new translation" -- 'Independent on Sunday'. (0/0 people found this helpful)
"Translations of the high standard of this one are more than ever in demand." -- Mary Garland, editor of 'The Oxford Companion to German Literature' (third edition, 1997)
"An excellent new translation" -- 'Independent on Sunday'. (2/3 people found this helpful)
"Translations of the high standard of this one are more than ever in demand." -- Mary Garland, editor of 'The Oxford Companion to German Literature' (third edition, 1997)
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