“Contemporary German Lit (CGL): Last time I checked, everybody’s favorite genre was ‘Watch me turn my family history into a sob story in an incredibly complex but also highly readable way’; favorite subgenre: ‘Look, I went to the attic and found my Jewish grandmother.’ This summer in Klagenfurt, ‘perky’ and ‘chipper’ seemed to be trending.”
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Translator and critic Robin Detje on the current German literary scene. Detje goes on to say, "German works best in a police report."
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