The words and the dead

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Attention! Such a fanatical campaign to save the remaining words of a wasting German language has never happened before, neither in reality nor in poetry. In this novel, however, it has happened for the first time: drastically, slyly, dramatically, memorably. The hero of this story, who feels his action to be a patriotic duty, goes on a bloody crusade across Germany for seven days, punishing with their lives - all in their own way - the culprits whom he holds responsible for the mass use of Anglicisms and for the ever more rapid destruction of the vocabulary of his native language; for example, a professor of German studies, a TV presenter, a minister of culture, a radio director, a dictionary publisher, and the managing director of an advertising agency. And in the end, al.

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Language
German
Item number
7600520

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Publisher
SWB
Category
Other literature
Release date
1.5.2018

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Language
German
Year
2018
Number of pages
280

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