Ilse Aichinger

[Mariel]

Ilse Aichinger is out of print and hard to come by in English. She must have crossed my path after this
http://writersnoonereads.tumblr.com/p... Writers No One Reads article. I forgot about her until looking up other Gruppe 47 members (okay, the Ingeborg Bachmann wikipedia page). I own and read her first novel. Her stories and poetry I've read scattered in different collections. She should be back. She's great.

http://pippoetry.blogspot.com/2011/07...
Ujanna Wolf and Christian Harkey won some award for translating her pieces recently. I haven't seen anywhere other than their blog. There's a biography here too.

Die grössere Hoffnung
Herod's Children in English.


The Bound Man, And Other Stories

[Nathan "N.R."]

Thanks for the reminder about Gruppe 47 ::
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruppe_47

I wonder a how many Gruppe 47 members might be BURIED to the Anglo-world today; and how many might remain nicht=ÜBERSETZT.

[Mariel]

The Collected Stories of Wolfgang Hildesheimer is on my real life bookshelf to read soon. I think a few of them are buried or obscured. If any more are as great as Aichinger, Paul Celan and Bachmann I'm sure I'll be reading a lot... (I found The Tin Drum a punishment. I think Grass is not in danger of obscurity. I think there was a (sorta) well known film of a Peter Weiss too. He's featured in an old save German authors from obscurity series with Aichinger, though. Didn't work or didn't take.

[Nate D]

I have to agree on Grass -- my hopes for him remain unmet by anything that really grabs me.

Aichinger, though, I'd love to read, if only I could find anything in english and semi-affordable. I was tipped off by the same WNOR post, but still looking...