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Spitzweg
Eckhart Nickel (born 1966)
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'I never cared much for art,' the narrator admits at the start, a contented philistine. Then Carl, a classmate he admires, wins him over with his passion for a Biedermeier painter. When that passion goes so far that Carl does not shy away from a crime, their school friendship faces its hardest test, and a dramatic search begins. What starts as a school story turns into a reflection on art and life, full of irony, deliberately old-fashioned words and elaborate sentences, and at times close to comedy.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 255 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2022 by Piper Verlag
- Author's age
- 56 when first published
- ISBN
9783492071437 (original)
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