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August by Christa Wolf ; Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: The\German List Ser.
Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and her family were forced to flee their home like many others, nearly starving to death in the process. Her earliest novels were controversial because they contai ...Show more
Correspondence: Paul Celan Ingeborg Bachman by Paul Celan; Ingeborg Bachmann; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\German List Ser.
Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post-World War II German literature's most important novelist ...Show more
Dispatches from Moments of Calm by Alexander Kluge; Gerhard Richter; Nathaniel McBride (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: The\German List Ser.
On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt published its daily issue--but things looked . . . different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they're read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted with care from the chaos of the contemporary.That c ...Show more
Goethe Dies by Thomas Bernhard; James Reidel (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called "one of the masters of European fiction" is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The subject of his stories vary: in one, Goethe summons Wittgenstein to discuss the Tractatus Logico ...Show more
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr; Simon Pare (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
In a publishing world that is all too full of realist novels written in undistinguished prose, discernible only by their covers, The Flying Mountain stands out--if for no other reason than that it consists entirely of blank verse. And that form is most suitable for the epic voyage Christoph Ransmayr rel ...Show more
The Great Fall by Peter Handke; Krishna Winston (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
"On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind." The latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronicles a day in life of an aging actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great metropolis into its center. He is scheduled to receive a presti ...Show more
What Was Before by Martin Mosebach; Kári Driscoll (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Martin Mosebach's novel What Was Before opens with a young couple enjoying a moment of carefree intimacy. Then the young woman, turning slightly more serious, asks her lover that fateful question, one that sounds so innocent but carries toxic seeds of jealousy: What was your life like before you met me? ...Show more
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