In one of the most important books of the German post-war period, Siegfried Lenz deals with negatively occupied concept of duty and creates an artistic liberation.
Siggi Jepsen has to write a paper on "The pleasures of duty" as a punishment work. He gives an empty booklet, while he could write enough about the subject: His father, a police officer, enforces the ban on painting opposite the artist friend Nansen and makes sure that Nansen follows through. The father also enforces the duty of fulfillment on his family: Siggi's older brother, his sister. But Siggi rebels and tries to save Nansen's pictures.
Kieu Van from the publishing house Nha Nam will present the book.
Siegfried Lenz (1926-2014) is regarded as one of the most significant authors of German-speaking post-war and contemporary literature. He first worked as an editor and later as a freelance writer. His books have been translated into 22 languages in about 30 countries. In addition to many other honors, Lenz received the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Bavarian State Prize for Literature and the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main.
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