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by Jorge de Sena
Jorge de Sena was a leading Portuguese poet and man of letters who translated Poe, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cavafy and Brecht. A polymath, multicultural character he lived mainly in exile from Salazar’s Portugal. By the Rivers of Babylon is a collection of his stories, (more...) |
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by Luise Rinser
Original title: Jan Lobel aus Warschau
Jan Lobel from Warsaw, first published in 1948, is a plaintive little novella about the emotional deprivations of war. In the portrait of the title figure it was one of the first post-war works that attempted, in a very quiet, unemphatic way, (more...) |
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Translated by Malcolm Green
(Translated Anthology) |
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by Ingeborg Bachmann
Translated by Michael Bullock
Original title: Das dreißigste Jahr
Ingeborg Bachmann is a poetess and her writing has its startling, poetically powerful passages that seem to sum up wonderfully the dilapidated, uneasy postwar Austria of her youth, for example ‘an estate that has crawled out tame and hidebound from under mortgages’. (more...) |
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by Claudio Magris
Translated by M Thompson
Original title: Illazioni su una sciabola
This is a true story although its main protagonist was a romantic novelist. He was Krasnov, an exiled (and retired) Russian general who starred in a piece of murderous play-acting sponsored by Nazi Germany in its last year of power. (more...) |
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