by Friedrich Torberg · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (DTV) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423008846
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«Der Schüler Gerber» is the novel by Friedrich Torberg, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (DTV) in paperback (296 pages, in German).
Kurt Gerber is a brilliant student about to take his final exams (Matura) at a Viennese secondary school. His mathematics teacher, Kupfer, an authoritarian and cruel man who is also the class tutor, constantly humiliates him. The novel portrays the young man's erosion in the face of a rigid educational system and the arbitrariness of power.
The original was published in 1930 under the title «Der Schüler Gerber hat absolviert» and the novel appeared in the dtv collection as volume 884.
A bildungsroman used as school reading in German-speaking countries, for readers of Austrian literature and modern classics.
