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Not that it makes a difference. Going To The Dogs by Erick Kastner. Author Erick Kastner. Title Going To The Dogs. Format Paperback.

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PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-101590175840

ISBN-139781590175842

eBay Product ID (ePID)116494146

Product Key Features

Book TitleGoing to the Dogs : the Story of a Moralist

Number of Pages280 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSatire, Literary, Political

Publication Year2012

GenreFiction

AuthorErich Kastner

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight7.6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2012-018730

Reviews'Kastner balances comedy, the music hall and the grim facts of one man's life in a wonderful novel that not only recalls 1920s Berlin, bringing Dix and Grosz to life, but also shines a spotlight on today.", "KÃ¤stner (1899-1974) had a message to convey about the crumbling of Berlin's moral standards, and he delivered it successfullyâ€¦.but it is Fabian himself who explains things best when he comments ironically, 'We live in stirring times . . . and they get more stirring every day.''" - Publishers Weekly "Like his hero Fabian, KÃ¤stner was not a cynic as a saddened idealist; the two conditions look much the same, but the latter is more painfulâ€¦. Fabian is a "key novel" of the Weimar Republic in its last years. It is a notably efficient novel, with little of the metaphysical resonance of [Thomas Mann's] Doctor Faustus or that book's soul-searching, but offering instead a series of moral tableaux, rendered the cooler by the chapter titles, in the form of newspaper headings." -The Times Literary Supplement "Graceful, vivid and distinguishedâ€¦a little masterpiece of pathos and calamity." -Michael Sadleir "Damned for its improper subject-matter, [ Going to the Dogs ] showed the crumbling Berlin of Christopher Isherwood's stories with something of Isherwood's sharp intelligence, but a far more tragic sense of implication." -The Times Literary Supplement "I am a great admirer of Fabian [original title] and have read it at least twice." -Graham Greene, "KÃ¤stner (1899-1974) had a message to convey about the crumbling of Berlin's moral standards, and he delivered it successfullyâ€¦.but it is Fabian himself who explains things best when he comments ironically, 'We live in stirring times . . . and they get more stirring every day.''" - Publisher's Weekly "Like his hero Fabian, KÃ¤stner was not a cynic as a saddened idealist; the two conditions look much the same, but the latter is more painfulâ€¦. Fabian is a "key novel" of the Weimar Republic in its last years. It is a notably efficient novel, with little of the metaphysical resonance of [Thomas Mann's] Doctor Faustus or that book's soul-searching, but offering instead a series of moral tableaux, rendered the cooler by the chapter titles, in the form of newspaper headings." -The Times Literary Supplement "Graceful, vivid and distinguishedâ€¦a little masterpiece of pathos and calamity." -Michael Sadleir "Damned for its improper subject-matter, [ Going to the Dogs ] showed the crumbling Berlin of Christopher Isherwood's stories with something of Isherwood's sharp intelligence, but a far more tragic sense of implication." -The Times Literary Supplement "I am a great admirer of Fabian [original title] and have read it at least twice." -Graham Greene, "KÃ¤stner (1899-1974) had a message to convey about the crumbling of Berlin's moral standards, and he delivered it successfullyâ€¦.but it is Fabian himself who explains things best when he comments ironically, 'We live in stirring times . . . and they get more stirring every day.''" Publisher's Weekly " Like his hero Fabian, KÃ¤stner was not a cynic as a saddened idealist; the two conditions look much the same, but the latter is more painfulâ€¦. Fabian is a 'key novel' of the Weimar Republic in its last years. It is a notably efficient novel, with little of the metaphysical resonance of [Thomas Mann's] Doctor Faustus or that book's soul-searching, but offering instead a series of moral tableaux, rendered the cooler by the chapter titles, in the form of newspaper headings." The Times Literary Supplement "Graceful, vivid and distinguishedâ€¦a little masterpiece of pathos and calamity." Michael Sadleir "Damned for its improper subject-matter, [ Going to the Dogs ] showed the crumbling Berlin of Christopher Isherwood's stories with something of Isherwood's sharp intelligence, but a far more tragic sense of implication." The Times Literary Supplement "I am a great admirer of Fabian [original title] and have read it at least twice." Graham Greene

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal833/.912

SynopsisGoing to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, "aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising copywriter . . . weak heart, brown hair," a young man with an excellent education but permanently condemned to a low-paid job without security in the short or the long run. What's to be done? Fabian and friends make the best of it--they go to work though they may be laid off at any time, and in the evenings they go to the cabarets and try to make it with girls on the make, all the while making a lot of sharp-sighted and sharp-witted observations about politics, life, and love, or what may be. Not that it makes a difference. Workers keep losing work to new technologies while businessmen keep busy making money, and everyone who can goes out to dance clubs and sex clubs or engages in marathon bicycle events, since so long as there's hope of running into the right person or (even) doing the right thing, well--why stop? Going to the Dogs , in the words of introducer Rodney Livingstone, "brilliantly renders with tangible immediacy the last frenetic years [in Germany] before 1933." It is a book for our time too., Going to the Dogs "brilliantly renders with tangible immediacy the last frenetic years [in Germany] before 1933.", Going to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, "aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising copywriter . . . weak heart, brown hair," a young man with an excellent education but permanently condemned to a low-paid job without security in the short or the long run. What's to be done? Fabian and friends make the best of it--they go to work though they may be laid off at any time, and in the evenings they go to the cabarets and try to make it with girls on the make, all the while making a lot of sharp-sighted and sharp-witted observations about politics, life, and love, or what may be. Not that it makes a difference. Workers keep losing work to new technologies while businessmen keep busy making money, and everyone who can goes out to dance clubs and sex clubs or engages in marathon bicycle events, since so long as there's hope of running into the right person or (even) doing the right thing, well--why stop? Going to the Dogs , in the words of introducer Rodney Livingstone, "brilliantly renders with tangible immediacy the last frenetic years in Germany] before 1933." It is a book for our time too.

LC Classification NumberPT2621.A23F313 2012