I Hardcover - 2015

New York City, NY: Seagull Books, 2015. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Seagull Books, 2015. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 293 pages. The author's very first novel to be translated into English. One of the greatest novels of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a small New York City press. Made possible by a grant from Goethe Institut, it is one of several titles in Seagull Books' "The German List". Presents Wolfgang Hilbig's "Ich" in a felicitous English translation by his devoted translator Isabel Fargo Cole. She has also contributed an illuminating Afterword Essay. One of the most unblinking examinations, in novel form, of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, by a German writer who considers himself deeply implicated after the fact. "Decades after the fall of Nazi Germany, sociologists and laymen alike still puzzle over one of the most vexing questions to come out of the subsequent revelations of widespread atrocities: How did millions of people go along with all this? Even more troubling was the question: Could I? Hilbig's appropriately titled 'I' addresses this and many similarly knotty quandaries of the human psyche" (World Literature Today) . An absolute "must-have" title for Wolfgang Hilbig collectors. This title is a great book, the very first novel by Wolfgang Hilbig to be translated into English. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent editions, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century and our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER WOLFGANG HILBIG TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0857422340.