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Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916-1991) was a novelist, playwright, painter, and the translator of Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood into German. His books include Loveless Legends, Mozart and Marbot, all of which have appeared in English. Later this year, Dalkey Archive Press will publish Hildesheimer’s Tynset. A volume of his correspondence is currently in preparation for Suhrkamp Verlag.

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About Renata Adler’s Speedboat

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January 2016

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

TR. Shaun Whiteside

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January 2016

  Best known for his bestselling biography of Mozart, Wolfgang Hildesheimer was a polymathic novelist, translator, painter and dramatist. A member of the influential literary...

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November 2013

Surviving Sundays

Eduardo Halfon

TR. Sophie Hughes

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November 2013

It was raining in Harlem. I was standing on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 162nd Street, my coat...

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October 2011

The New Global Literature? Marjane Satrapi and the Depiction of Conflict in Comics

Jessica Copley

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October 2011

Over the last ten years graphic novels have undergone a transformation in the collective literary consciousness. Readers, editors and...

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November 2011

Sheepskin

Olivia Heal

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November 2011

The first I noticed was your thumbnails, large, round and flat, like two plates. They were marked with yellowed...

 

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