Jenny Erpenbeck (born March 12, 1967) is a German writer and opera director, recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Life. Born in East Berlin, (Visitation). In 2007, Erpenbeck took over a biweekly column by Nicole Krauss in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. In her latest novel, Go, Went, Gone, Jenny Erpenbeck, 2018 Puterbaugh Fellow, addresses the current refugee crisis that has had far-reaching political ramifications on both sides of the Atlantic. Her protagonist, Richard, a widower and retired classics professor, undertakes a project to interview refugees from Africa who have staged a hunger strike in Berlin to protest their legal limbo. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. Jenny Erpenbeck prefaces Not a Novel with a four-page summary of her literary career to date. She begins in her mid-twenties, with the memory of writing a seminar paper on an obscure topic suggested by her professor, using an old electric typewriter and editing by cutting up the pages with scissors and rearranging the text.
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Visitation Jenny Erpenbeck, trans. from the German by Susan Bernofsky, New Directions, $14.95 paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1835-1. More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS Jenny Erpenbeck writes unlike any other writer I’ve ever had the fortune to read. I have never come across such a powerful blend of darkness, poetry, exposure of the subconscious, dread for what is to come and deep sadness and guilt for all that could not be prevented.
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2017-12-12 · In Jenny Erpenbeck’s timely novel, a retired classics professor finds his routine existence transformed when he befriends a group of African refugees.
Check out this great listen on Audible.ca. A best seller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe’s most significant contemporary authors.
Erpenbeck's novel 'Visitation' was made into a play, which premiered in 2010 (above) Visitation is a novel about the search for "Heimat," home, and its loss. It's also about nature's power to
Erpenbeck's novel 'Visitation' was made into a play, which premiered in 2010 (above) Visitation is a novel about the search for "Heimat," home, and its loss.
In February 2008 Visitation was published.Visitation, set by a lake in Brandenburg, is an unusual book.
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2010-09-08 Susan Choi kicks off our new series with Visitation, a novel by German author Jenny Erpenbeck.
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"Jenny Erpenbeck's novel is an ambitious attempt to compress 20th-century trauma into a single address, but though the narrative painstakingly traces the movement of glaciers and the potato beetle, it rattles through the human history with confusing swiftness" - Alfred Hickling, The Guardian
"Visitation" is not an easy read, but it is a good one. 2012-02-20 · The main character in Jenny Erpenbeck’s third novel Visitation is in actual fact a grand house which sits by a lake in Brandenburg, Germany, a house obviously kept quite close to Erpenbecks heart since she once lived there herself. Erpenbeck's time line is not lateral and neither is the history of the house. The stories are held together by short snippets about "The Gardener", an itinerant who has handled the gardening chores in the villa and several surrounding ones. "Visitation" is not an easy read, but it is a good one. Go, Went, Gone, is a 2015 fiction novel by German writer Jenny Erpenbeck.
Impressive as it is, Visitation lacks the jewel-like perfection of The Old Child. Its richly populated, realistic narrative poses a big challenge for an author previously hailed as a miniaturist
Built by an architect in the 1930s, it serves as a weekend getaway on a Brandenburg lake in what will be East Germany.
New Directions, 2010. Like the storied estates of Brideshead and Manderley, the house in Jenny Erpenbeck’s unsettling, inventive novel Visitation has a hold on everyone who passes through it. Like the storied estates of Brideshead and Manderley, the house in Jenny Erpenbeck’s unsettling, inventive novel Visitation has a hold on everyone who passes through it.