Reader of written words. Poetry, philosophy, all things literary 🇬🇧🇩🇪
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14 Sep 2024
On the occasion of the upcoming English translation of László Krasznahorkai's novel Herscht 07769, I recorded a video in which I talk about my personal reading of his books including his core themes and recurring motifs. Hope is a mistake.
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Jan 30
A precursor to the likes of Elfriede Jelinek and Thomas Bernhard, one of the first writers to deal with repressed Austrian guilt after WW2, Hans Lebert is virtually forgotten today. There exist(ed) various translations of Die Wolfshaut, but even the German is out of print.
ALT Die Wolfshaut (The Skin of the Wolf)
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Jan 30
Framed as a crime novel with bursts of expressionistic language (nature descriptions reminiscent of Jahnn), it balances the suspense of something unknown lurking with the boring everyday life of a village. At least CR has a review for English readers: complete-review.com/reviews/…
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Jan 12
70 years after the publication of the "Brazilian Ulysses" Grande Sertão: Veredas by João Guimarães Rosa, 2026 might finally be the year English and German readers get new translations by Alison Entrekin (Vastlands: The Crossing) and Berthold Zilly (Großer Sertão: Überquerungen)
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Jan 10
For the weekend readers! My first publication of the year is a poetic essay with @MinorLits. It's a departure in style from all my previous work, indebted to writers like Paul Celan, Toni Morrison, and Matsuo Bashō.
I wrote to give myself a language to survive these times.
Jan 8
"I live in possession of the feeling that a great, soft rain is just beyond my reach ..."
Apocalypso in Dreamtime — @ZIssenberg
minorliteratures.com/2026/01…
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20 Nov 2025
A forgotten Austrian cult novel, and there even is an English translation. Strange traces of Kafka, Borges, Beckett, Vonnegut and more - literally: Hoffer infuses this blend of contradicting mythologies and fever dreams with dozens of paraphrases of other writers.
ALT Among the Bieresch by Klaus Hoffer
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20 Nov 2025
The translation by Isabel Fargo Cole (who also translated Wolfgang Hilbig) is available from @seagullbooks and includes the sources for the paraphrases and quotes, among an afterword describing the tragic real background of the titular Biereschek.
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23 Oct 2025
A singular, if very disturbing reading experience so far that fits well with the nearing season of ghosts. No coherence in time and space, undead main characters - then again, language itself seems to be the dissected main character eating itself.
ALT The Children of the Dead, Elfriede Jelinek's magnum opus
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9 Oct 2025
Should have left out the question mark and trusted the voice
5 Jan 2024
Happy 70th birthday to the master of the apocalypse, the king of the endless sentence, the virtuoso of chapter titles and epigraphs, 2025 Nobel winner (?) László Krasznahorkai. So many thoughts on his work, so great the temptation to ditch all other reading plans in his favor.
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20 Sep 2024
Really enjoyed Ava.
"It's time to consider learning to fly."
"To devour all that is the world."
"One feels the need in the end for hundreds of daughters"
"A love story where the beloved makes the mistake of not existing."
"Let's play a posthumous accordion solo together."
25 Jul 2024
"Determined to reshape the world according to the dictates of desire"
Now reading
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20 Sep 2024
"Prolonging the world with song."
"You will use up the number of times assigned to you to articulate this or that hexameter and you will go on living. You will use up the number of times your heart has been assigned a heartbeat and then you will have died."
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20 Sep 2024
"Nostalgia. What is remembered. What never existed except as remembrance."
"We listen to the music that is silence."
"Black birds across the watery sky, drowning."
"One wrestles, gently, with the end."
"Snow falls like music."
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3 Sep 2024
Me whenever a minor inconvenience happens
3 Sep 2024
Going to listen to Mihály Víg on repeat for the next few hours.
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20 Aug 2024
Happy End of Anniversaries to those who celebrate!
20 Aug 2024
August 20, 1968 "Last and Final"
One year and 1.900 pages later, the journey of reading Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries (Jahrestage) day for day is over. Whatever people mean by "maximalist," this one sure is. A masterpiece.
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20 Aug 2024
August 20, 1968 "Last and Final"
One year and 1.900 pages later, the journey of reading Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries (Jahrestage) day for day is over. Whatever people mean by "maximalist," this one sure is. A masterpiece.
18 Aug 2023
Who's fixing to start reading Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries starting on August 21, the day on which the book begins?
ALT The cover of volume 1 of Anniversaries by Uwe Johsnon
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19 Aug 2024
The impact that Religion and Nothingness by Keiji Nishitani had on me through all the re-reads has been unmatched, and not just because it introduced me to Dōgen Zenji and Meister Eckhart.
18 Aug 2024
Antidote: tell me about the work of theory or philosophy that gave you something essential, that made living possible in a dark hour or illuminated the scaffolding of the world, tell me about a book that isn’t a social accessory for status but is a love, became part of you.
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18 Aug 2024
Possible reading plan for next year: "A historical novel about things that never happened and won't happen," apparently an early 21st century political manifesto qua postmodern sci-fi zombie doorstopper. Blurbs sound interesting, to say the least
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16 Aug 2024
10 books to get to know me
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7 Aug 2024
With Erpenbeck winning the Booker Prize and Jelinek, Bachmann, Haushofer, Fritz seemingly receiving more recognition lately, here are 4 more picks for women in translation month by German-speaking writers
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