Look who's back book english

Cineuropa is the first european portal dedicated to cinema and audiovisual in 4 languages. It seems to me that the book is not about hitler at all, but about trivial, ephemeral 21st century berlin. Request english subtitles for german film look whos. Our waterstones book club choice this week is timur vermes satirical novel look whos back which sees a rather confused adolf hitler return to modern day germany. Look whos back er ist wieder da 2015 rotten tomatoes. It is ultimately a sort of commentary on hitlers first ascent to poweron the point at which. Read online now look whos back book by hachette uk ebook pdf at our library.

When adolf hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker 70 years later, hes mistaken for a brilliant comedian and becomes a media phenomenon. Look whos back has sold more than 250,000 copies in its english editions, and rights were sold to 35 territories. Vermes gives us a bracingly doublesided hitlerthe arresting public speaker and astute negotiator who loves dogs and small children, and also the fanatical champion of political. Vermes gives us a bracingly doublesided hitlerthe arresting public speaker and astute negotiator who loves dogs and small children, and also the fanatical champion of political violence, global tyranny and ethnic cleansing. Adolf hitler wakes up to find himself in the 21st century. Constantin film is going undercover for look whos back, its bigscreen adaptation of timur vermes bestselling novel that imagines the. Thered be no need to discuss the acceptability of laughter if look whos back.

Count on much more of this debate when the books may 5 publication date in the united states arrives. Look whos back by timur vermes 9781782067832 booktopia. But the fuhrer has another program with even greater ambition in mindto set the country he finds in shambles back to rights. I then bought the english translation as a gift for a friend, who studied history and he really. Naive yet insightful, repellent yet strangely sympathetic, the revived hitler unquestionably has a spring in his step. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Now youll also know timur vermes, whose debut novel has created a sensation in germany. Look whos back new modern fiction novel brings hitler.

For example, while you wouldnt say, the book, who is 500 pages, was released in 1923, you could say, the book, whose 500 pages fly by, was released in 1923. Translator jamie bulloch helps by providing a glossary at the close of the book, but what people will. Oliver masucci, fabian busch, christoph maria herbst. You know his hair and mustache, which are caricatured with sharp, witty minimalism on the cover of look whos back, in which a baffled adolf hitler is returned to the even more baffled german people.

This is a great companion to the movie, er ist weder da look whos back which was inspired by the book for those who are not aware of the publishing history. Though few german novels are translated into english and maclehose press should be commended for publishing this book, look whos back seems unlikely to be as successful here. Following the books european publication, some questioned whether a novel placing hitler in a contemporary setting was offensive while others praised its. Look whos back and millions of other books are available for instant access. The story starts in the summer of 2011 in berlin, where adolf hitler wakes to find himself in a vacant lot. Timur vermes will be speaking at the bristol festival of ideas, foyles cabot circus, 1 april, 6. Find out what our bookseller thinks and read the first chapter. From there he pursues a career as a standup comedian. Look whos back 2015 tvma 1h 56m international comedies when adolf hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker 70 years later, hes mistaken for a brilliant comedian and becomes a. Definitely, look whos back it is an interesting and necessary film that features an excellent work of oliver masucci as hitler, but it also becomes a little scattered as it progresses by its.

The book was a massive success in germany, selling more than 1. Mounks view, look whos back is lighter and funnier, but its taboobreaking might also appeal to the same audience that made a best seller of the 2010 book germany does away. Based on the sametitled satirical novel by timur vermes, it imagines what would happen if the dictator woke up and found himself in contemporary berlin. The frisson of reading look whos back comes from its seamless transition from borscht belt oneliners to disturbing invocations of the legacies of nazi rule. Get look whos back book by hachette uk pdf file for free from our online library pdf file.

Look whos back ends with footage of masucci riding in the back seat of an open sedan as some people run after him yelling furious epithets, while others offer the nazi salute. The people in the novel recognise and understand who hitler is, but they think he is just an impersonator who wont stop acting his hitler character. Adolf hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Janet maslin of the new york times called look whos back desperately funny an ingenious comedy of errors. Hitler wakes up in 2014 at the exact spot where he supposedly shot himself in his bunker, now a quiet residential area in berlin. The title translates as hes back and its about hitler, who mysteriously reappears in. An englishlanguage translation, look whos back, translated by jamie bulloch, was published in april 2014 by maclehose press. This odd tendency arises out of the fact that there is no equivalent word in english thats strictly for inanimate objects. The book itself has a passage that was omitted from the film because it would. Janet maslin, the new york times satire at its best.

How germans have fallen back in love with hitler telegraph. It tells the story of adolf hitler who wakes up in the year 2011, bringing hitler back to life. Wonderfully inventive, very funny and superbly written we love this book. He quickly gains media attention, but while germany finds him hilarious and charming, hitler makes some serious observations about society. Charting the awakened hitlers rise to tv stardom, look whos back has beaten dan brown on the german bestseller lists so far, 1. Look whos back 1 hours and 56 minutes movie 2015 adolf hitler wakes up in the 21st century. Quercus hachette book group look whos back by timur. Whose is the possessive form of the pronoun who, while whos is a contraction of the words who is or who has however, many people still find whose and whos particularly confusing because, in english, an apostrophe followed by an s usually indicates the possessive form of a word.

Look whos back is published by maclehose press on 3 april. For example, a purse belonging to a woman is the womans purse. The original audiobook version is read by comedian christoph maria herbst and by may 2014 had sold over 520,000 copies. Newsweek in this recordbreaking bestseller, timur vermes imagines what would happen if adolf hilter reawakened in presentday germany. An independent best books of the year selection a new york times summer reading pick you know his name. The rest is taken care of by history or the tv ratings. Look whos back er ist wieder da, the film by german director david wnendt, was released and distributed by constantin film in 2015.