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Schlump : tales and adventures from the life of the anonymous soldier Emil Schulz, known as 'Schlump' : narrated by himself by Grimm, Hans Herbert; Weidermann, Volker; Bulloch, Jamie is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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An NYRB Classics Original Seventeen-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. Schlump , 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, Schlump 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.

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Author

Grimm, Hans Herbert; Weidermann, Volker; Bulloch, Jamie

Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The

Published

1928

Language

EN

ISBN

9781681370262

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, World Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (69 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14