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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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September 2015

Immigrant Freedoms

Benjamin Markovits

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September 2015

My grandmother, known to us all as Mutti, caught one of the last trains out of Gotenhafen before the...

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December 2013

A Lucky Man, One of the Luckiest

Katie Kitamura

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December 2013

Will you take the garbage when you go out? My wife said this without turning from the sink where...

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August 2016

The Place of the Bridge

Jennifer Kabat

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August 2016

I.   Look up. A woman tumbles from the sky, her dress billowing around her like a parachute as...

 

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