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Neue Herrlichkeit: Roman
Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso
216 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1984
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September 18, 2023
Großartig. Ein Kammerspiel beinahe, handlungsarm (Ein schwacher und bindungsscheuer Mann profitiert von seinen Privilegien.) und voller Ironie. Ungeheuer deutsch, wie nur Bücher im geteilten Deutschland es sein konnten.
March 26, 2026
Der Autor war vermutlich Prüfungsthema an der Uni, das ich mir selbst ausgesucht habe. Denn ich mochte den Autor und ich habe so gut wie alles gelesen, was er zu DDR-Zeiten geschrieben hat.
Hier geht es um ein Erholungsheim, und im Rückblick wirkt das Buch wieder wie ein Gesellschaftsroman mit kritischen Untertönen. Es ist sein letzter, den er vor der Wende geschrieben hat und fängt die Stimmung der Spätzeit der DDR akkurat ein.
Genau geschilderte Figuren, die Interesse bei mir als Leser weckten. Sein Realismus wirkte immer organisch, nie dogmatisch. Eine sehr zugängliche Schreibweise.
3,5
Hier geht es um ein Erholungsheim, und im Rückblick wirkt das Buch wieder wie ein Gesellschaftsroman mit kritischen Untertönen. Es ist sein letzter, den er vor der Wende geschrieben hat und fängt die Stimmung der Spätzeit der DDR akkurat ein.
Genau geschilderte Figuren, die Interesse bei mir als Leser weckten. Sein Realismus wirkte immer organisch, nie dogmatisch. Eine sehr zugängliche Schreibweise.
3,5
May 17, 2015
== A psychological novel about contrasts and quirks of personalities ==
For me this novel written by an author who resided in communist East Germany (GDR) all his life is more noteworthy for its qualities of remoteness or alienation than for closeness and intimacy. Viktor, the main character is a dispirited young man impaired by an innate case of the blahs. New Glory is the name of the isolated rest home where Viktor spends a winter to complete his research and thesis for graduation. Academically he sets goals for himself but lacks conviction to pursue them. He dawdles and procrastinates, being more intent on socializing with the operators and guests of the establishment. He does pursue a love interest, Thilde—the only girl in his sequestered environment that could possibly be a sexual attraction. But she is fixated on taking care of her eccentric and senile grandmother and lacks emotion commitment to form anything even approaching a passionate liaison with Viktor. Their relationship, overshadowed by Thilde’s deteriorating health, endures more by lingering insufficiencies, inadequacies and failures than by heartfelt engagement. Viktor’s father is a blowhard functionary, highly placed and admired in the GDR’s bureaucratic maze. As his son Viktor rides on his father’s coattails, receiving attention and deference from the common folk because of it. But his father disapproves of Thilde who lacks education and breeding as well as having a swarthy, Gypsy-like, complexion.
This is a psychological novel, a study in behavior contrasts and quirks between the inhabitants of New Glory. It lacks any kind of emotional intensity or any suspenseful anticipation, Like, Viktor, it has a case of the blahs. It offers some irony and humor. It does not give much insight about the political environment of the GDR or the domineering Soviet influence. The book was first published in West Germany but the book’s appearance in East Germany was repeatedly delayed due to de Bruyn’s failure to highlight GDR’s achievements and the merits of Marxism. New Glory received popularity and praise in the West which resulted in the East being shamed into releasing it there, with some ‘revisions’ to correct some of its failings.
I was interested in learning about conditions in the GDR in the 70s and 80s. This book provided little information. Not only that but in terms of historical fiction it does not offer much to maintain reader interest other than learning about the characters’ humdrum habituated existences. But overall this tale is about Viktor’s failure to confront his wimpish approach to life.
For me this novel written by an author who resided in communist East Germany (GDR) all his life is more noteworthy for its qualities of remoteness or alienation than for closeness and intimacy. Viktor, the main character is a dispirited young man impaired by an innate case of the blahs. New Glory is the name of the isolated rest home where Viktor spends a winter to complete his research and thesis for graduation. Academically he sets goals for himself but lacks conviction to pursue them. He dawdles and procrastinates, being more intent on socializing with the operators and guests of the establishment. He does pursue a love interest, Thilde—the only girl in his sequestered environment that could possibly be a sexual attraction. But she is fixated on taking care of her eccentric and senile grandmother and lacks emotion commitment to form anything even approaching a passionate liaison with Viktor. Their relationship, overshadowed by Thilde’s deteriorating health, endures more by lingering insufficiencies, inadequacies and failures than by heartfelt engagement. Viktor’s father is a blowhard functionary, highly placed and admired in the GDR’s bureaucratic maze. As his son Viktor rides on his father’s coattails, receiving attention and deference from the common folk because of it. But his father disapproves of Thilde who lacks education and breeding as well as having a swarthy, Gypsy-like, complexion.
This is a psychological novel, a study in behavior contrasts and quirks between the inhabitants of New Glory. It lacks any kind of emotional intensity or any suspenseful anticipation, Like, Viktor, it has a case of the blahs. It offers some irony and humor. It does not give much insight about the political environment of the GDR or the domineering Soviet influence. The book was first published in West Germany but the book’s appearance in East Germany was repeatedly delayed due to de Bruyn’s failure to highlight GDR’s achievements and the merits of Marxism. New Glory received popularity and praise in the West which resulted in the East being shamed into releasing it there, with some ‘revisions’ to correct some of its failings.
I was interested in learning about conditions in the GDR in the 70s and 80s. This book provided little information. Not only that but in terms of historical fiction it does not offer much to maintain reader interest other than learning about the characters’ humdrum habituated existences. But overall this tale is about Viktor’s failure to confront his wimpish approach to life.
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