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* The group of young writers after the war who came to symbolize the new German literature.
Stefan Zweig (left) and Joseph Roth in Ostend, Belgium, 1936 (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Volker Weidermann is the literary director and editor for the Sunday edition of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the author of a number of works of literary history and critical biography.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Carol Brown Janeway’s translations include Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader and Summer Lies, Jan Philipp Reemtsma’s In the Cellar, Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s Lost, Zvi Kolitz’s Yosl Rakover Talks to God, Benjamin Lebert’s Crazy, Sándor Márai’s Embers, Yasmina Reza’s Desolation, Thomas Bernhard’s My Prizes, and Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World, Me and Kaminski, Fame, and F. Ostend was her final translation before her death in 2015.
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