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The unspoken tensions between banality and evil give this German autobiographical novel, first published in 1971, a powerfully unsettling impact

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NB by J.C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement

Among the other German writers whose work he rendered into English was Arno Schmidt, whose Joycean wordplay presented a daunting challenge.

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“Restraint is sometimes the act of watching what disturbs another’s eye.”

Ferdinand Kriwet lotete schon als Jugendlicher die Bild- und Zeichensprache der Massenmedien aus. Nun widmet ihm das Heine-Institut eine Ausstellung. Eine persönliche Erinnerung.

Stefano Zangrando C’è una poesia di Günter Eich, poeta e drammaturgo tedesco tra i fondatori del Gruppo 47, che è considerata emblematica dell’istanza rifondatrice del linguaggio poetico della Trümmerliteratur, la «letteratura delle macerie» che si sviluppò in Germania nell’immediato dopoguerra. S’intitola Inventario e comincia così: «Questo è il mio berretto, / questo è il mio cappotto / qui la mia roba per fare la barba / nella borsa di lino». In una lingua semplice e sc...

I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was, says Bottom. I have had a dream, and I wrote a Big Book about it, Arno Schmidt might have said. Schmidt s rare vision is a journey into many literary worlds. First and foremost it is about Edgar Allan Poe, or perhaps it is language itself that plays that lead role; and it is certainly about sex in its many Freudian disguises, but about love as well, whether fragile and unfulfilled or crude and wedded. As befits a dream upon a hea...