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Calder & Boyars
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by Shlomo Kalo
Translated by Philip Simpson
A book of thematically-related shorts mainly witten in abbreviated telegramese —
‘The Swiss
Powerful jaws
To pontificate as to chew...
A small race
A small country
Three languages
No wars
Banks, ch (more...) |
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by Jan Wolkers
Translated by Greta Kilburn
Original title: Turks fruit
Wolkers’ initial training was in the arts and during the 1950s he studied sculpture under Zadkine in Paris. It is not surprising, therefore, that the unnamed narrator of this best-selling novel should be an avant-garde sculptor. (more...) |
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by Simon Vestdijk
Translated by B.K. Bowes
Original title: Rumeiland
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by Mark Insingel
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: Spiegelingen
How meaning is constructed out of language is the abiding interest of all Insingel’s writing, whether in his poetry, his shorter prose pieces or his novels. These novels are generally episodic in nature and merely provide him with a larger keyboard on which to improvise. (more...) |
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by Jan Cremer
Translated by R.E. Wyngaard and Alexander Trocchi
Original title: Ik, Jan Cremer
First published in the roaring sixties, I, Jan Cremer owed its phenomenal success as much to its bawdy language and barnstorming picaresque narrative as to its new, (more...) |
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by Peter Weiss
Translated by C Levenson
Original title: Abachied von den Eltem / Fluchtpunkt
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by Peter Weiss
Translated by C Levenson
Original title: Abschied von den Eltem & Fluchtpunkt
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by Peter Weiss
Translated by S M Cupitt
Original title: Der Schatten des Körpers des Kutschers (1960;& Gespräch der drei Gehenden (1963)
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by Robert Walser
Translated by Christopher Middleton
Original title: Der Spaziergang
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by Martin Walser
Translated by B Ellis-Jones
Original title: Das Einhorn
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