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Squandered Advice Ilse Aichinger 9780857429780
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.41The first English translation of a major work of postwar German poetry. Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) was a member of the Gruppe 47 writers' group, which sought to renew... -
At No Time – Scenes and Dialogues by Ilse Aichinger
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.75Dramatic sketches full of surprising, unpredictable twists and turns from a major twentieth-century German-language author. A member of the Gruppe 47 writers’ group which sought to renew... -
Bad Words: Selected Short Prose by Ilse Aichinger
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.18I now no longer use the better words. Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) was one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, she survived World... -
Bad Words - Selected Short Prose by Ilse Aichinger
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.71A moving work of fiction from one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) survived World War II in... -
The Holocaust Novel Efraim Sicher 9780415967976
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the powerful and moving works written in response to... -
Angina Days: Selected Poems by Gunter Eich 9780691144979
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80This is the most comprehensive English translation of the work of Gunter Eich, one of the greatest postwar German poets. The author of the POW poem "Inventory," among one of the most famous lyrics in... -
Parallel Text: German Short Stories: Deutsche Kurzgeschichten by Richard Newnham
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form also matched perfectly the prevailing mood of irony, objectivity and... -
When Kafka Says We: Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature by Vivian Liska
Booksplease Price: £28.88Taking as its starting point Franz Kafka's complex relationship to Jews and to communities in general, When Kafka Says We explores the ambivalent responses of major German-Jewish writers to... -
German and European Poetics after the Holocaust - Crisis and Creativity by Gert Hofmann
Booksplease Price: £109.33Crisis presents chances for change and creativity: Adorno's famous dictum that writing poetry after Auschwitz would be barbaric has haunted discourse on poetics, but has also given rise to poetic and... -
It All Tastes of Farewell: Diaries, 1964-1970 Brigitte Reimann 9780857427809
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Continuing where Reimann's earlier book of diaries, I Have No Regrets, left off, in 1964, this volume is a compelling and frank account of one woman's life and loves in 1960s East Germany.It All...