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"Will I Come to a Miserable End?" Jenny Erpenbeck on Thomas Mann
"He succeeds in inverting the order of farce and tragedy."
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Jenny Erpenbeck
| September 3, 2020
Can We Ever Escape History? On Walter Kempowski's Life's Work
An Antidote to the Traumatic Experiences of a Wartime Childhood
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Jenny Erpenbeck
| February 15, 2018
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