{"product_id":"schlump-isbn-9781681370262","title":"Schlump","description":"An NYRB Classics Original\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeventeen-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchlump\u003c\/i\u003e, written by Hans Herbert Grimm, was published anonymously in 1928 and 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, \u003ci\u003eSchlump\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"A lost classic of anti-war literature is revived in a fresh, vigorous translation...a welcome contribution to the literature of the Great War and its discontents.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The boisterous and often brutal story of a young German’s military service during World War I, Grimm’s long-lost novel is a clear-eyed account of life during wartime…Grimm’s is a bloody picaresque with a fairy tale hero at its center…. Present-day readers will be touched and saddened by his enthusiasm.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An unusual, original and charming addition to that great army of WWI novels.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A century after the Great War, \u003ci\u003eSchlump\u003c\/i\u003e reappears in Jamie Bulloch’s excellent new translation and the extraordinary story of its rediscovery probably warrants a novel of its own...exceptional.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “One of the great First World War novels, about a German soldier in a French village, who falls in love with it. It’s full of criticism of how the war was conducted by Germany, so when Hitler came in, it was burnt.” —Michael Morpurgo, \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The best of German war books so far.” —J.B. Priestley\u003cb\u003eHans Herbert Grimm\u003c\/b\u003e (1896–1950) was born in the town of   Markneukirchen and fought in World War I. After the war he taught   Spanish, French, and English in Altenburg, and published \u003ci\u003eSchlump\u003c\/i\u003e anonymously in 1928 to avoid drawing his employer’s attention to his pacificist beliefs. \u003ci\u003eSchlump \u003c\/i\u003ewas   not the commercial or popular success Grimm had hoped it would be, but   his anonymity protected him when the book was burned by the Nazis in   1933. To avoid suspicion, Grimm joined the Nazi Party and worked as an   interpreter in France during World War II. After the war, however, he   was barred from teaching because of his party membership and began   working in the theater and, later, in a sand mine. In 1950, two days   after meeting with East German authorities, Grimm committed suicide; it   is not known what was discussed at the meeting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamie Bulloch\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian and translator of German literature. His most recent translations include \u003ci\u003eLook Who’s Back\u003c\/i\u003e by Timur Vermes and \u003ci\u003eRaw Material\u003c\/i\u003e by Jörg Fauser.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolker Weidermann\u003c\/b\u003e is the former director and editor of the Sunday edition of \u003ci\u003eFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\u003c\/i\u003e and is currently a contributor to \u003ci\u003eDer Spiegel\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eOstend: Stefan Zweig\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Joseph Roth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSummer Before the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303864717541,"sku":"NP9781681370262","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681370262.jpg?v=1767736187","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/schlump-isbn-9781681370262","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}