AMERICA - EUROPE

About the Book

Klaus Lanzinger is professor emeritus of German with concurrent specialization in American Literature at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He was born in the Austrian Tyrol w 1928. He studied History, English, and American Literature at the University of Innsbruck, 1948-52, earning his PhD. there. As a Fulbright student from Austria, he also graduated with a B.A. from Bowdoin College in 1951. He began his academic career as research assistant at the Amerika-Institut of the University of Innsbruck. When he accepted the position of associate professor of Modern Languages at the University of Notre Dame in 1967, he immigrated with his family to the United States. He became a naturalized US. citizen in 1979. He has published extensively on both skies of the Atlantic. Jason’s Voyage: The Search for the Old World in American Literature is one of his major book publications. His research interests have centered on American-European literary and cultural relations. In teaching and research he has been committed to international education.

About the Author

This book has been forty years in the making. Seen through the eyes of one observer, it is a document of a critical period in the history of the West, when in response to an immense threat the Atlantic Alliance was formed. The years of the Berlin Wall 1961 – 1989 serve as time frame for the narrative, while events of the 1990s are also referred to. The Diary offers valuable observations on America in comparison to Europe and vice versa. It deals with the European immigration to the United States and examines in depth America’s awareness of its Old World or European cultural heritage.