Something for the Weekend – Some German Literature Tips

I’m an inveterate reader of German literature, I’ve even written a nine-page critical essay on an obscure Austrian novel from the 1970s – Die Groẞe Hitze oder Die Errettung Österreichs durch den Legationsrat Dr Tuzzi. Read it? To be honest, neither have most Austrians. However, if you fancy settling down to rather less esoteric German […]

Continue reading

Foreign Novel Review: Fabian

Fabian, as its author Erich Kästner insisted, is the story of a moralist even though he clearly lives in immoral times.  The book depicts Berlin in the moral decay and chaos that epitomised the dying days of the Weimar Republic just before Hitler and the Nazis take power.  This is a Berlin, teetering on the […]

Continue reading