The novella was Schmidt's preferred form at the beginning of his writing career, and this volume collects the ten novellas he wrote between Entymesis (1949) and Republica Intelligentsia (1957). The settings range from ancient Greece to 21st-Century America, but all react to the stifling conservati[...]
Classical Cooking the Modern Way Recipes Third Edition Philip Pauli Classical Cooking the Modern Way: Recipes, Third Edition embodies over 780 extraordinary recipes from the famed Pauli family. A wider breath of readers now have the opportunity to benefit from this newly revised translation. The ori[...]
This book, originally published in 1982, was the first monograph in English to offer a critical study of an important twentieth-century German novelist, Arno Schmidt. Schmidt, who died in 1979, was a controversial figure on the German literary scene. His early work, which began appearing immediately[...]
Arno Schmidt (1914-1979) was one of the most remarkable writers of the twentieth century. Despite much of his work being available in English, his centenary passed nearly unremarked in the United States and England - to the disappointment of those who frequent the mythical Literary Saloon. In his ho[...]
Early fiction of one of the most daring and influential writers of postwar Germany, a man often called the German James Joyce due to the linguistic inventiveness of his fiction.[...]
Gathered here are all of the short stories that Arno Schmidt wished to preserve.
This is the last in a four volume edition of the early fiction of one of the most daring and influential writers of postwar Germany, a man often called the German James Joyce due to the linguistic inventiveness of his fiction. Among Schmidt enthusiasts, scholars, and fans, the two novels stand in s[...]
Arno Schmidt (1914-1979) is considered one of the most daring and influential writers of postwar Germany; the Germanist Jeremy Adler has called him a "giant of postwar German literature." Schmidt was awarded the Fontane Prize in 1964 and the Goethe Prize in 1973, and his early fiction has been trans[...]
As in the first volume, published by Green Integer in 1999, this second volume contains dialogic discussions of literary figures, performed over German radio from 1953 to 1971 by the great German novelist. Here Schmidt discusses, again, his beloved James Joyce, as well as the English writer Bulwer-L[...]
Ein 46jähriger Lohnbuchhalter macht mit seiner Freundin, einer Designerin, einen Automobilausflug: mit der Isetta von Nordhorn nach Giffendorf in der Lüneburger Heide. Dort bewirtet sie Tante Heete, die lebensfrohe, aber etwas vereinsamte Witwe. Da ist die ganze Geschichte. Sie erzählt vom Wirtsc[...]