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Emil and the Detectives (German: Emil und die Detektive) is a 1929 novel set mainly in Berlin, [1] by the German writer Erich Kästner and illustrated by Walter Trier. It was Kästner's first major success and the only one of his pre-1945 works to escape Nazi censorship.
First published in 1929, Erich Kästner's Emil und die Detektive (Emil and the Detectives in English translations) especially and brilliantly sparkles and glows with its sense of time and place, with its urban realism, its palpably authentic and genuine representation and description of Berlin (the actual capital city of the Germany of the ...
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The books of journalist, novelist and satirical poet Erich Kästner stoked the bonfire in full view of the insatiably curious eye-witness reporter who wrote them. Just behind Marx, but ahead...
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Nov 29, 2019 · I discovered Erich Kästner through the book 'The End of Loneliness', in which two of the characters watch a film adaptation of an Erich Kästner book. So I did some research and discovered that 'Emil and the Detectives' is Erich Kästner's most famous book. I read it in one breath today.
Emil Erich Kästner (German: [ˈʔeːʁɪç ˈkɛstnɐ] ⓘ; 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and Lisa and Lottie. [1]
Erich Kästner’s Emil and the Detectives (1929) ranked not only as a work of art, presenting city boys with humour and sympathy, but as an immediate classic in an entirely new field, the juvenile detective story (Mark Twain’s awkward Tom Sawyer, Detective [1896] may be ignored). Kästner,… Read More. Literature Novels & Short Stories Novelists A-K.
May 14, 2014 · Emil and the detectives was first published in 1929 by German writer and pacifist Erich Kaster. It’s a classic adventure-detective story where the kids out-smart the adults and reap rewards of their courage.
