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To continue with what's new on the American market in terms of translations from the German, two works by the fascinating Austrian writer Jakov Lind reappeared recently: The New York Review of Books Classics series has published Lind's Soul of Wood, translated by the late, great Ralph Manheim, with an introduction by author Michael Krüger, who is also director of Hanser Verlag in Munich. The title novella concerns a one-legged WWI veteran who during WWII hides a Jewish boy, then abandons him until he needs a cover for his murderous wartime deeds. Soul of Wood also includes six short stories.Open Letter Books, meanwhile, has reissued Ergo, originally published in 1967, also in a translation by Ralph Manheim. Ergo follows a custom house worker named Wacholder, obsessed with his nemesis, Würz, a recluse to whom he has sent 73 invective-filled letters over the years, all of which remain unanswered. After letter #74, things get serious...
Both Lind titles are available from our library.
And speaking of unreliable narrators, there's the Canetti clan -- Elias, Veza and Georges -- of 
We are pleased to announce that author Maria Cecilia Barbetta is writer-in-residence at the 
The long-awaited reopening of our library takes place this coming Tuesday at our new space in New York's SoHo, at 72 Spring Street, 11th Floor. For a 
Poetry presents a special challenge for the translator, requiring a balance between dedication to the original text and making one's translation a poem in its own right. This process is a vital one for both languages: it yields something new and different, an expression or a thought that wouldn’t have been possible to say otherwise. Help celebrate the launch of issue number 55:1 of the acclaimed 
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Beginning this past Monday with Robert Walser's 