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Arno Schmidt

Works by Arno Schmidt

Scenes from the Life of a Faun a Short Novel [Buy Direct]

by Arno Schmidt
Translated by J E Woods
Original title: Aus dem Leben eines Fauns

Egghead Republic, the a Short Novel from the Horse Latitudes [Buy Direct]

by Arno Schmidt
Translated by M Boyars
Original title: Die Gelehrtenrepublik

Collected Novellas [Buy Direct]

by Arno Schmidt
Translated by John E. Woods

This is the first in a four volume edition of the early fiction of one o f 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. The novella was Schmidt's preferred form at the beginning of (more...)

Nobodaddy's Children [Buy Direct]

by Arno Schmidt
Translated by John E. Woods
Original title: Nobodaddy's Kinder

This trilogy of novels traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of a Faun recounts the dreary life of a government worker who escapes the banality of war by researching the exploits of a deserter from the Na (more...)

Two Novels [Buy Direct]

by Arno Schmidt
Translated by John E. Woods

Among Schmidt enthusiasts, scholars, and fans, the two novels stand in sharp contrast to one another, the first belonging to his early, more realistic phase, and the second introducing his later, more experimental phase. But the hairs are not worth splitting. Taking place in 1954, (more...)

Evening Edged in Gold [Buy Direct]

by Arno Schmidt
Original title: Abend mit Goldrand

Collected Stories [Buy Direct]

by Arno Schmidt
Translated by John E. Woods

Gathered here are all of the short stories that Arno Schmidt wished to preserve. They are grouped under three headings: the first two, Tales from Island Street and S turenburg Stories , are a perfect spot to test Schmidtian waters, to hear the voice of a master storyteller. T (more...)

Nobodaddy’s Children; Scenes from the Life of a Faun. Brand’s Heath. Dark Mirrors.

by Arno Schmidt
Translated by J E Woods
Original title: Nobodaddys Kinder