Volume 27 • 2021 • Through German: Contemporary Literature in Translation

Absinthe 27: Through German. Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are all represented in this issue, but so are England, Ghana, Israel, Moldova, Romania, Syria, Turkey, and Ukraine. And while Absinthe 27 does have a distinct international flair, it is not a selection of Migrantenliteratur, a category that fences in writers as foreign rather than German or Austrian or Swiss. Rather, the authors represented are all integral to the German-speaking world and its representation, whether the authors were born there, arrived decades ago, or came recently to perhaps find another home, perhaps pass through. Translated and edited by Lauren Beck, Elisabeth Fertig, Ivan Parra Garcia, Lena Grimm, Özlem Karuç, Michaela Kotziers, Elizabeth Sokol, Silke-Maria Weineck, and Veronica Cook Williamson, Through German presents a fuller picture of what it means to live in the Germanosphere in the 21st century.

Acknowledgments and Preface


Preface: Through German: Contemporary Literature in Translation

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Poetry


toss the little snapdragons behind you | that nothing fits with | from the natural history museum i know | you lie on thin sheets as on paper | a doe hounded into snow

Ronya Othmann and Michaela Kotziers

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Forgotten Journeys to the past, selections | I breathed by you | password world | at night every trip leads abroad | I could have stopped | Refugees run across the meadow

Zafer Şenocak and Özlem Karuç

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Forgotten Journeys to the past, selection | Field Trip

Zafer Şenocak and Veronica Cook Williamson

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The Rhinoceros | The Cellist

Serhiy Zhadan, Claudia Dathe and Elizabeth Sokol

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Short Prose and Stories


A Lie Named Germany

Abdullah Alqaseer, Mustafa Al-Slaiman and Veronica Cook Williamson

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The Navel of the World

Catalin Dorian Florescu and Lena Grimm

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long ago and not really true (chapter 24)

Marina Frenk and Lauren Beck

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Strasbourg, December 24th

Barbara Honigmann, Lauren Beck and Ivan Parra García

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My Life as a Cat | In the Golden Cage

Barbara Honigmann and Lauren Beck

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Encounter by the Sea

Ronnith Neumann and Ivan Parra García

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The Story of Circle and Quadrangle

Sharon Dodua Otoo and Özlem Karuç

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Fore-Names

Zafer Şenocak and Lauren Beck

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Radio Play


Ballad of Three Important Men and Also of the Circle of Persons Around Them, Dramatized for Radio

Elfriede Jelinek and Elisabeth Fertig

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Translator's Reflection

Elisabeth Fertig

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Backmatter


Contributors

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Source Texts

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