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02551aam a2200409 i 4500 001 1A5E6F2219C611E7BD0085CCDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170405010226 007 tu 008 160512r20151928nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2016019773 020 $a 1681370263 020 $a 9781681370262 035 $a (OCoLC)950083875 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d OCLCF $d GWDNB $d BKL $d NYP $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d TOH $d IUO $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d IWA $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-gx--- 050 00 $a PT2613 R52125 S3513 2015 100 1 $a Grimm, Hans Herbert, $d 1896-1950, $e author. 240 10 $a Schlump. $l English 245 10 $a Schlump : $b tales and adventures from the life of the anonymous soldier Emil Schulz, known as "Schlump", narrated by himself / $c Hans Herbert Grimm ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch ; afterword by Volker Weidermann. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York Review Books, $c [2015] 300 $a 279 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a New York Review Books classics 520 $a "Seventeen-year-old Schlump marches off to war in 1915 because going to war is the best way to meet girls. And so he does, on his first posting, overseeing three villages in occupied France. But then Schlump is sent to the front, and the good times end. Schlump, which was published anonymously in 1928 and widely translated at the time, was one of the first German novels to describe World War I in all its horror and absurdity and it remains one of the best. What really sets it apart is its remarkable central character. Who is Schlump? A bit of a rascal and a bit of a sweetheart, a victim of his times, an inveterate survivor, maybe even a new type of man. At once comedy, documentary, hellhole, and fairy tale, Schlump is a gripping and disturbing book about the experience of trauma and what the great critic Walter Benjamin, writing at the same time as Hans Herbert Grimm, would call the death of experience, since perhaps if anything goes, nothing counts"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Pacifism $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Soldiers $z Germany $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Bulloch, Jamie, $e translator. 700 1 $a Weidermann, Volker, $d 1969- $e writer of supplementary textual content. 830 0 $a New York Review Books classics. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018013712.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170405035038.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1A5E6F2219C611E7BD0085CCDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search