Death In Rome

Wolfgang Koeppen

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Death In Rome

Wolfgang Koeppen
FictionFirst published 2026Available 04/26

Download Death in Rome is the most devastating novel about the Germans that I have ever read, and one of the most arresting on any subject. It takes a German family—not a real German family, not even a caricature of a German family, but a prototypical German family that George Grosz would have had the bile but not the wit to invent, and Musil or Mann the wit but not the bile—and brings them to Rome.

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Death In Rome

Wolfgang Koeppen

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