- Fiction, Germans, German language materials, Italy, fiction
Death in Rome deals with the careers of former National Socialists after World War II. The novel is sharply critical of Germany's past, post-war reality and future, sounding a warning and a prophetic note.[2] Koeppen targets German militarism, revealing the dangerous influence of fascist ideology on certain West German social strata.
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Wolfgang Koeppen
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 217
- Publisher
- Granta Books, Granta, Hamish Hamilton
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781862075894
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“Once upon a time, this city was a home to gods, now there's only Raphael in the Pantheon, a demigod, a darling of Apollo's, but the corpses that joined him later are a sorry bunch, a cardinal of dubious merit, a couple of monarchs and their purblind generals, high-flying civil servants, scholars that made it into the reference books, artists of academic distinction.”
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