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Absolutely loved the Hoffmann and Kafka stories. Dual language books are great because they help you learn.
I read a sleeper of a book (to me). I was not expecting to give it 5 stars. I was not expecting to be engrossed in, for the most part, all five pieces which made up this book. Those who know my reviews will raise their eyebrows at 5 stars. What’s this?! Mr. Outlier-of-Many-Reviews now deigns to give a book 5 stars?? Well!!! 😮What’s terrible is that only 53 people on Goodreads have read this collection and only 4 people reviewed it! 🙁So, I guess I might be talking to a few people but that’s OK. I...
Story 1: Guy has bad luck, natural disaster strikes and everything turns out perfectly. Of course no 'great' story can have a happy ending, so everyone is murdered.Story 2: Guy goes bat-shit crazy. No really, absolutely nuts. It was a long time in the making. He dies.Story 3: Internal monologue of guy sitting through boring concert. While I can withstand my own internal monologue, his I couldn't handle more than a couple pages. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say he dies in some tragic, utterly r...
Five Great German Short Stories is edited and translated by Stanley Appelbaum, who also worked on Ausgewählte Märchen. Unbeknownst to me for a while -- but it feels right. I don't know. Denser, more "normal" prose seems much harder for me to track bilingually, even just in flighty and occasionally dipped attempts; but I can tell for the most part it's solid and careful. That's what I say every time. I guess I'll just stick to verse or fancy little folk tales or airy monuments to philosophy. Y'kn...
