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    Month: November 2014

    Farewell to Berlin

    Dear Joseph, I’ve just finished two of your nonfiction books, What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920–1933, and The Wandering Jews: The Classic Portrait of a Vanished People, both translated…… Read more “Farewell to Berlin”

    17 de November de 201417 de June de 2016 by juliana

    Joseph Roth

    Joseph Roth (1894 – 1939), was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist. He was born and grew up in Brody, a small town near Lemberg (now Lviv) in East Galicia, in what…… Read more “Joseph Roth”

    17 de November de 20144 de November de 2016 by juliana

    Falling from grace

     Dear Ingo, Your novel Adam and Evelyn (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 304 p. Translator: John E. Woods) takes place in the Summer of 1989 and centers around a…… Read more “Falling from grace”

    17 de November de 201417 de June de 2016 by juliana

    Ingo Schulze

    Ingo Schulze (15 December 1962) is a German writer born in Dresden in former East Germany. He studied classical philology at the University of Jena, and was an… Read more "Ingo Schulze"

    17 de November de 20142 de March de 2016 by juliana

    Alone among human beings

    Dear Stefan, I just finished reading three books of yours. I’ll give a brief account of each book, and then write about my general view of them.…… Read more “Alone among human beings”

    11 de November de 201417 de June de 2016 by juliana

    Stefan Zweig

    Stefan Zweig (November 28, 1881 in Vienna – February 22, 1942 in Petrópolis) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. Zweig was born in Vienna, which… Read more "Stefan Zweig"

    11 de November de 20144 de November de 2016 by juliana

    Under the skin of others

      Dear Doris, In Japanese, the words for skin and clothing are identical. In yoursecond novel Das blaue Kleid (The blue dress), published in 2002 and winner…… Read more “Under the skin of others”

    7 de November de 201422 de November de 2019 by juliana

    Doris Dörrie

    Doris Dörrie (1955) is a German writer. She studied cinema and filmmaking at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, and social sciences at the New… Read more "Doris Dörrie"

    7 de November de 201414 de March de 2016 by juliana

    Words as pistols

      Dear Heinrich, I’ve just read your book The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (transl. Leila vennewitz), and I believe it is better understood when we remember…… Read more “Words as pistols”

    7 de November de 201417 de June de 2016 by juliana

    Heinrich Böll

    Heinrich Böll (21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985)  studied German at the University of Cologne and worked, for one year, in a municipal statistical bureau. He left the… Read more "Heinrich Böll"

    7 de November de 20143 de March de 2016 by juliana

    All the stories within

    Dear Ali, If you remove a fresco, you see the drawing underneath, like a story within another story. Your new novel, How to be both, resembles a painting,…… Read more “All the stories within”

    6 de November de 201423 de October de 2016 by juliana

    Ali Smith

    Ali Smith was born in 1962 in Scotland. She studied at the University of Aberdeen and began a PhD at Newnham College, Cambridge, but never completed it.…… Read more “Ali Smith”

    6 de November de 201416 de December de 2020 by juliana

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