Jakov Lind

Landscape in Concrete

Übersetzer: Manheim, Ralph

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A picaresque, absurd depiction of the perfect Nazi soldier separated from his battalion and manipulated by everybody.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Letter
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9781934824146
• ISBN-10: 1934824143
• Artikelnr.: 25949289

Autorenporträt

Jakov Lind was born in Vienna and survived the Second World War by fleeing into Germany, where he disguised himself as a Dutch deckhand. Regarded in his lifetime as a successor to Beckett and Kafka, Lind was posthumously awarded the Theodor Kramer Prize in 2007. Ralph Manheim was one of the great translators of the twentieth century. He translated Günter Grass, Bertolt Brecht, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Hermann Hesse, Peter Handke, and more. In 1982, PEN American Center created an award for translation in his name.