Fiction chronicle November 2021
Huis clos
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On The Passenger, by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, Hard Like Water, by Yan Lianke, Awake, by Harald Voetmann & A Sunday in Ville-d’Avray, by Dominique Barbéris.
Topic: “German Literature”
Books November 2021
True & false
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Books June 2021
The sound of silence
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Fiction chronicle May 2021
Afterwards
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On “The Invisible Land,” by Hubert Mingarelli, “Ferdinand, The Man with the Kind Heart: A Novel,” by Irmgard Keun, “Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing,” by Guido Morselli & “Mr Cadmus,” by Peter Ackroyd.
Reflections January 2021
The ordinary ennobled
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On Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Books May 2019
Kafka’s Kafkaesque trial
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Dec 19, 2018
The man who made Romanticism
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On the composer, writer, and artist E. T. A. Hoffmann.
Features November 2018
How to read Kafka: part II
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The second in a two-part series on the writer who transformed our view of modern rationalism.
Features April 2018
Schiller’s bell
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On Friedrich Schiller’s “Das Lied von der Glocke.”
Features September 2017
Getting to grips with Goethe
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Reconsidering the literary relevance of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.