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This collection of poems presents Gunter Grass's preoccupations - social, sexual, moral, gastronomical - as a mixture of expressionist grotesquerie and political outspokenness that has characterized his fiction. ... Read more

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tr Ronald Taylor & Michael Hamburger ... Read more

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One of the major twentieth-century European poets, Paul Celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from his experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of his parents in the death camps. In his verse he sought to express 'not only what the experience felt like, but also a sense of living, with comprehension, inside the experience'. This title is winner of the first European translation prize. ... Read more

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Michael Hamburger is a perennial outsider watchingthe absurdities of life with a mixture of cynicism and insecurity. No matter how far he travels, he never comes home for the simple reason that he has no home. He belongs nowhere-which is to say he can function anywhere. He is always alive to the singularity of every place person and circumstance he encounters. The result is an unsettling Kafkaesque feeling of displacement that make his memoirs strangely compelling. ... Read more