Fiction chronicle November 2021
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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.
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.
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.
On Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
On the composer, writer, and artist E. T. A. Hoffmann.
The second in a two-part series on the writer who transformed our view of modern rationalism.
On Friedrich Schiller’s “Das Lied von der Glocke.”
Reconsidering the literary relevance of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.