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Panopticon by Hans Magnus Enzensberger; Tess Lewis (Translator)
Category: Culture | Series: The\German List Ser.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection of daring short essays on topical themes--politics, economics, religion, society--not from Jeremy Bentham's famous prison but from a mid-1930s Cabinet of Curiosities opened in Germany by Karl Valentin. "There," writes Enzensberger, "viewers co ...Show more
Prose by Thomas Bernhard; Martin Chalmers (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
"His manner of speaking, like that of all the subordinated, excluded, was awkward, like a body full of wounds, into which at any time anyone can strew salt, yet so insistent, that it is painful to listen to him," from The CarpenterThe Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is ...Show more
TUMULT by ENZENSBERGER HANS MAGNUS
Category: Biography | Series: The\German List Ser.
A collection of writings based on Enzensberger's personal experience as a left-wing sympathizer during the 1960s. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany's greatest living poet, was already well known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of which Tumult is an autobiographical record. Deri ...Show more
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr; Simon Pare (Translator)
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 Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr; Simon Pare (Translator)
Category: Man Booker International Prize | 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)
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
The Rest Is Slander - Five Stories by Thomas Bernhard; Douglas Robertson (Translator)
Category: Short Stories | Series: The\German List Ser.
A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of twentieth-century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard. "The cold increases with the clarity," said Thomas Bernhard while accepting a major literary prize in 1965. That clarity was the postwar realization that the West's last remaining cu ...Show more
The Village Indian by Abbas Khider
Category: Fiction | Series: German List
Part Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and part "1001 Nights" set in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author's experiences as a political prisoner and as a refugee. Our hero, Rasul Hamid describes the eight different ways he fled his home in Iraq and the eight different ways he has failed to find a ...Show more
Three Plays Philoctetes by MULLER HEINER
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: German List
Despite being widely acknowledged as one of the most important German dramatists since Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Muller (1929-95) still remains relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. This collection of plays aims to change that, presenting new translations and opening up his work to a larger aud ...Show more
Ulysses - Mahler after Joyce by Nicolas Mahler; Alexander Booth (Translator)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: The\German List Ser.
A twist on the Irish literary classic Ulysses, told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. Dublin, 16 June 1904: through a day in the life of the advertising agent Leopold Bloom and the sensations of the ordinary, James Joyce created a maximal book from a minimum of matter. Ulysses, ...Show more
War Diary by Ingeborg Bachmann; Jack Hamesh (Contribution by); Hans Höller (Editor, Afterword by); Mike Mitchell (Translator)
Category: Biography | Series: The\German List Ser.
Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her War Diary is not a day-by-day journal but a series of sketches, depicting the last months of World War II and t ...Show more