Friday, February 4, 2022 - 12:00
Delighted that this excellent collection of Durs Grünbein's Oxford lectures transalted by Karen Leeder and just published by Seagull Books has been reviewed in the TLS this week by Jamie Osborn: see here.
It is a subtle searing book on our relation to history which touches on aerial warfare, literature, the Autobahn, Hitler and stamp collecting. which still fascinates me after having translated it ( a good sign!)
'it is testimony to the sensitivity of his writing and of Karen Leeder’s translation that the text leaves open its question of whether we have learned from history. “We cannot know”, he writes; “fortunately, we cannot know, whether this is the last word on the matter.”
Hoping to launch in Oxford before long.