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Ronald Taylor

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Ronald Taylor

Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Sussex, a musicologist and an author, Ronald Taylor edited and translated numerous works of German literature, including Keller’s A Village Romeo and Juliet and Eichendorff’s Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing.

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Immensee and Other Stories

By Theodor Storm

This volume, which also contains ‘Viola Tricolor’, the delightful story of a woman coming to terms with her stepdaughter, and ‘Curator Carsten’, a sombre account of a young man falling into a life of debauchery, provides a vivid introduction to one of the finest storytellers of German Romanticism.

The Devil’s Elixirs

By E.T.A. Hoffmann

The son of a heinous sinner, Medardus is brought up in a monastery to atone for his father’s wicked ways. However, after succumbing to temptation, Medardus himself is lured into a life of sin. A labyrinthine plot sees him embarking on a fantastical journey into the world, meeting his doppelganger, i…

Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing

By Joseph von Eichendorff

Deeply imbued with the style and sentiment of German Romanticism, and philosophical and poetic in its approach to nature and existence, Memoirs of a Good-for- Nothing is at once an exhilarating romp and a lively portrayal of nineteenth-century ideals. Eichendorff’s prose masterpiece – a picaresque a…

Stuart Hood

By alex on November 21, 2016 in

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Stuart Hood

Stuart Hood (1915–2011) was a Scottish novelist, translator and television producer. His translations include works by Erich Fried, Dario Fo, Dino Buzzati, Goffredo Parise and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Kenneth Halwas

By alex on November 21, 2016 in

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Kenneth Halwas

Kenneth Halwas is the author of a translation of Gottfried Keller’s Swiss classic Martin Salander.

Michael Hamburger

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Michael Hamburger

Michael Hamburger OBE (1924–2007) was a noted British translator, poet and academic. His translations include works by Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn and W.G. Sebald.

Rupert Copeland Cuningham

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Rupert Copeland Cuningham

Rupert Copeland Cunninghal is the author of the first English translation of Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus.

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Locus Solus

By Raymond Roussel

Based, like the earlier Impressions of Africa, on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, this book invites the reader to enter a world which in its innocence and extravagance is unlike anything in the literature of the twentieth century. Cantarel, a scholarly scientist, whose enormous wealth…

Dominic Di Bernardi

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Dominic Di Bernardi

Dominic Di Bernardi is the author of many translations from French, including works by Céline, Butor, Ollier, Navarre and Roubaud.

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London Bridge

By Louis-Ferdinand Céline

A major work by one of France’s most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during the First World War. Picking up where its predecessor Guignol’s Band left off, Céline’s narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with an eccentric…

Rayner Heppenstall

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Rayner Heppenstall

Rayner Heppenstall (1911–81) was a poet, novelist, journalist, translator and broadcaster. He is remembered as a forerunner of the Nouveau Roman and a spiritual forefather to the neo-Modernist circle headed by B.S. Johnson in 1960s Britain.

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Impressions of Africa

By Raymond Roussel

The first of Roussel’s two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with t…

Ralph Manheim

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Ralph Manheim

Ralph Manheim (1907–92) was a graduate of Harvard University. He lived in Paris from 1951 to 1986, and in Cambridge, England until his death in 1992. Among his early works is a 1943 translation of Mein Kampf that is still in print. He subsequently became a full-time translator, working largely for the Bollingen foundation, where he produced English versions of numerous works by Carl Jung and Erich Neumann. He is best known for his literary translations of European authors, including Brecht, Grass, Handke, Hesse, and Céline. He also produced a complete retranslation of Grimms’ Tales for Young and Old.

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Journey to the End of the Night

By Louis-Ferdinand Céline

First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person by Céline’s fictional alter ego Bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the author’s own experiences during the First World War, in Fr…

Death on Credit

By Louis-Ferdinand Céline

When Céline’s first novel, Journey to the End of the Night was first published in 1932, it created an instant scandal, being extravagantly praised by its supporters and savagely attacked by its horrified opponents. Four years later came the sequel, Death on Credit. Both were a new kind of novel, fra…

Christine Brooke-Rose

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Christine Brooke-Rose

Christine Brooke-Rose (1923–2012) was a British translator, literary critic and experimental novelist.

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In the Labyrinth

By Alain Robbe-Grillet

The Battle of Reichenfels has been fought and lost. The army is in flight. The enemy is expected to arrive in town at any moment. A soldier, carrying a parcel under his arm, is wandering through an unknown town. All the streets look the same, and he cannot remember the name of one where he was suppo…

Peter V. Czipott

By alex on November 21, 2016 in

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Peter V. Czipott

A scientist by profession and a native Hungarian speaker, Dr Peter V. Czipott has published a number of translations from the Hungarian in literary journals the world over, including the poems of Zoltán Zelk, Sándor Reményik, György Faludy and Miklós Radnóti.

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Journey by Moonlight

By Antal Szerb

Originally written in 1937, and here presented in a brilliant new translation by Peter V. Czipott, Antal Szerb’s gently humorous and psychologically subtle exploration into the workings of a budding bourgeois marriage has been hailed as one of the great rediscovered classics of the twentieth century…

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