Quality | 2009.11.12
The Tin Drum, By Günter Grass trans Breon Mitchell
Self's Murder, By Bernhard Schlink trans Peter Constantine
A Minute's Silence, By Siegfried Lenz trans Anthea Bell
In some fantasy parallel universe of open-door British publishing, we might greet the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall\'s fall by hailing the English version of Uwe Tellkamp\'s Der Turm. After all, Tellkamp\'s landmark epic of Dresden in the 1980s, as the GDR slithered towards its end, won the Booker-equivalent German Book Prize a year ago. Back in the real world of scant and sluggish translations, readers who have had their curiosity about Germany\'s singular modern fate piqued or re-ignited by this week\'s uneasy partying have the usual UK mixed bag of literary imports to enjoy: the re-translation of a momentous classic that scrubs up beautifully, a crime novel with political resonance from a global bestseller, and – the nicest find of all – a late-career gem by another postwar master of conscience and memory.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entert[...]trans-anthea-bell-1819470.html
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