Detlev, half Jewish and fatherless, survives the Hamburg firestorm of 1943 to become a child actor in the postwar years of hunger. The boy Detlev is also the man J?cki living the explosion of gay culture and student revolt in Hamburg in 1968. Detlev's Imitations is a sentimental education, an investigation of the possibilities and limits of language, an ethnography of sexual cultures, a novel of Hamburg and a poetic documentation of postwar German history.
- ISBN10 1852421673
- ISBN13 9781852421670
- Publish Date 15 February 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 July 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Serpent's Tail
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 176
- Language English