Youth: Autobiographical Writings Dalkey Archive Essentials dispatched by Zeus to sound

dispatched by Zeus to sound out his fellow deities

IRELAND (English): Kevin Barry

and Beckett in its representa­tion of what language can do when it turns against itself and its speaker

" —Carl Van Vechten

Youth: Autobiographical Writings Dalkey Archive Essentials dispatched by Zeus to soundThe short, intense autofiction Youth, translated here for the first timeis a portrait of the little north German town of Greifswald before World War I. It is a miracle of compression, a kind of personal apocalypse. Also included is one of Koeppens last works: a short, fragmentary text depicting Wolfgang Koeppens return to the town of his schooldays. Wolfgang Koeppen is the most important German novelist of the past seventy years: a radical, not to say