Youth: Autobiographical Writings aphorisms I was reminded—somewhat nostalgically—of much

I was reminded—somewhat nostalgically—of much of the literature that has defined the early part of my adult life

Containing significant debut translations into English from such authors as Herta Müller and Yoko Tawada

"I can assure you that no movie will ever achieve the speed of prose

sometimes contradictory worlds of writing and human interaction: for Valenzuela

Youth: Autobiographical Writings aphorisms I was reminded—somewhat nostalgically—of muchThe short, intense autofiction Youth, translated here for the first timeis a portrait of the little north German town of Greifswald before World War I. It is a miracle of compression, a kind of personal apocalypse. Also included is one of Koeppens last works: a short, fragmentary text depicting Wolfgang Koeppens return to the town of his schooldays. Wolfgang Koeppen is the most important German novelist of the past seventy years: a radical, not to say