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German literature

Book Review: “Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home”

Endpapers is an invaluable gift to literature, mainly but not only for the quotations, details, and beguilingly written scenes of publisher Kurt Wolff’s life scattered throughout

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Alexander Wolff, Atlantic Monthly Press, Endpapers : A Family Story of Books, Escape and Redemption, Franz Kafka, German literature, Kai Maristed, Kurt Wolff, War

Book Review: “Imperium” — A Shock-Packed Pastiche of History

In this entertaining satire of empire, Christian Kracht makes use of a nihilistic magic realism, without the sweetness one normally associates with that mode.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: August Engelhardt, Christian Kracht, cocovorism, Fiction of the South Seas, German literature, Imperium, Kai Maristed, translation, vegetarian

Book Review: The Absurdity of Living in the Space Between — “Elsewhere” by Doron Rabinovici

Elsewhere is a tragicomic work, its plethora of absurd coincidences an attempt to portray the senseless plight of the post-postmodern man.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Christiane K. Alsop, Doron Rabinovici, Elsewhere, German literature, Haus Publishing, translation

Book Review: “Natura Morta” — A Powerful Still Life in Prose

The omniscient narrator in Natura Morta is flawlessly neutral, allowing the images, minimal action, and characters’ reactions to the events of this single day in a Roman square to tell the story.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Adrian West, German literature, Josef Winkler, Natura Morta, translation

Film Commentary: Wes Anderson, Stefan Zweig, and Discovering the Value of “The World of Yesterday”

Perhaps a movie such as “The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is much more than a zany comedy, can lead us back, as director Wes Anderson may have intended, to the fabulous writing of Stefan Zweig.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Film, German literature, literature in translation, Stefan-Zweig, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The World of Yesterday, Wes Anderson

Book Review: Roving Free Agents of the Imagination

Autobiography, personal essay, history, current affairs, or literary criticism, many are the guises under which travel writing has seduced readers of decidedly categorical bent.

By: Tess Lewis Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Gabriel Levin, German literature, Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray, Middle-East, Peter Wortsman, The Dune's Twisted Edge: Journeys in the Levant, Travelers' Tales

Book Feature: Authors Bernhard Schlink and Joyce Hackett on the Craft of Writing and Writing About the Past

Sponsored by the Harvard Writing Program and the Harvard Summer School, the event was introduced, perhaps humorously, to the audience as a “meeting of German–American relations.” In reality, it was a more of a showcase in differences about each country’s historical imagination.

By: Christopher M. Ohge Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: American literature, Bernhard Schlink, German literature, Joyce Hackett, The Reader

Book Review: The “Three Lives” of Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig’s was a dramatic, action-packed, intense epic of a life, but Oliver Matuschek’s biography, Three Lives, simply plods along.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Culture Vulture, German literature, Oliver Matuschek, Pushkin Press, Stefan-Zweig, Three Lives: A Biography of Stefan Zweig

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