Henry Miller, Author, Emil Schnellock, Author, Siegfried Lenz, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $12.95 (225p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1092-8
This brief, delightful book, crammed with the late Miller's characteristically uninhibited mischief, has been a long time coming to fruition: as early as 1938, he planned to gather his letters to his friend Emil Schnellock into a book, aware that...
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Siegfried Lenz, Author Henry Holt & Company $24.45 (425p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0943-9
Bruno Messmer, guileless narrator of this study of emotional death and nationalist tensions in postwar Germany, was saved from drowning at WW II's end by the Zeller family. Now, more than 30 years later, he stands to inherit the most valuable tracts
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Siegfried Lenz, Author, Breon Mitchell, Editor New Directions Publishing Corporation $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1105-5
West German writer Lenz's best stories rank with those of Gunter Grass. He uses satire, parable, folk tale, allegory and psychosocial realism to penetrate postwar German consciousness and to expose human foibles. In ``An Acceptable Level of Pain,''...
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Siegfried Lenz, trans. from the German by John Cullen. Other Press, $17.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-590510-53-7
Lenz (1926–2014) effectively mines his experiences in the German army for this memorable account of a German soldier, written in 1951 and posthumously published. Six years after fighting in WWII, Walter Proska plans to write a confessional letter to
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