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020			_a9781783786091 _qhardback
040			_cAE-ShPAA
041	1		_aeng
050			_aPT2665.E77 N68 2020
082	0	4	_a838.914 _223
100	1		_aErpenbeck, Jenny, _d1967- _eauthor. _918929
240	1	0	_aKein roman. _lEnglish
245	1	0	_aNot a novel : _bcollected writings and reflections / _cJenny Erpenbeck ; translated from the German by Kurt Beals.
264		1	_aLondon : _bGranta Books, _c2020.
300			_axii, 186 pages ; _c23 cm
336			_atext
500			_aOriginally published in German as "Kein Roman: Texte und Reden 1992 bis 2018" by Penguin Verlag, 2018.
500			_aTranslated from German.
501			_aP.B
520			_aJenny Erpenbeck's highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany's most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New Yorker, James Wood wrote: "When Erpenbeck wins the Nobel Prize in a few years, I suspect that this novel will be cited." On the heels of this literary breakthrough comes Not a Novel, a book of personal, profound, often humorous meditations and reflections. Erpenbeck writes, "With this collection of texts, I am looking back for the first time at many years of my life, at the thoughts that filled my life from day to day." Starting with her childhood days in East Berlin ("I start with my life as a schoolgirl ... my own conscious life begins at the same time as the socialist life of Leipziger Strasse"), Not a Novel provides a glimpse of growing up in the GDR and of what it was like to be twenty-two when the wall collapsed; it takes us through Erpenbeck's early adult years, working in a bakery after immersing herself in the worlds of music, theater, and opera, and ultimately discovering her path as a writer. There are lively essays about her literary influences (Thomas Bernhard, the Brothers Grimm, Kafka, and Thomas Mann), unforgettable reflections on the forces at work in her novels (including history, silence, and time), and scathing commentaries on the dire situation of America and Europe today. "Why do we still hear laments for the Germans who died attempting to flee over the wall, but almost none for the countless refugees who have drowned in the Mediterranean in recent years, turning the sea into a giant grave?" With deep insight and warm intelligence, Jenny Erpenbeck provides us with a collection of unforgettable essays that take us into the heart and mind of "one of the finest and most exciting writers alive" (Michel Faber).
650		0	_aAuthors, German _y21st century _vEssays. _918930
700	1		_aBeals, Kurt, _etranslator. _918931
910			_a2013
942			_cBK
999			_c1481 _d1481