translations
Recipient of the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize, the 2009 Looren Translation Grant, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, and multiple awards from the PEN Translation Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts, Susan Bernofsky specializes in modernist and contemporary German-language literature.
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(New York: New Directions, 2009).
Walser's first novel is a portrait of the artist as a young writer-to-be.
Walser's first novel is a portrait of the artist as a young writer-to-be.
(New York: New Directions/London: Portobello, 2009).
A story of multiple displacements dedicated to Catherine Deneuve.
A story of multiple displacements dedicated to Catherine Deneuve.
(New York: New Directions, 2007; London: Penguin Classics, 2008). In this classic novel of fin-de-siècle Switzerland, a young man takes up a post as assistant to an inventor whose fortunes are on the wane.
(New York: New Directions; London: Portobello, 2007).
A haunting account of life in a military dictatorship as seen through the eyes of a little girl.
Foreword by Tom Robbins (New York, Modern Library, 2006).
The classic tale of a young man searching for enlightenment.
The classic tale of a young man searching for enlightenment.
