Publications
Michael Hofmann on Granta.com
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Issue 149
Michael Hofmann | On Europe
Michael Hofmann
‘For all its flimsiness, the cage takes itself terribly seriously, restricting access, glorying in the name of Fatherland.’
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Issue 129
Where the World War Began
Joseph Roth
The World War began in Sarajevo, on a balmy summer afternoon in 1914. It...
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Issue 129
End of the Pier Show
Michael Hofmann
‘They were fascinated / by what they seemed to have contained.’
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Issue 129
Losses
Günter Grass
‘In the summer, my wife and I visited the small Danish island of Møn.’
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Issue 129
The Stone-Thrower from Eisenhuttenstadt
Max Thomas Mehr & Regine Sylvester
‘It has nothing to do with the question of the foreigners. No one in Eisenhuttenstadt wants the foreigners here.’
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Issue 129
A Letter to my Sons: War’s End
Heinrich Böll
‘No, it's not easier for you than it was for us: don't let them tell you otherwise.’
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Issue 129
Resistance
Günter Grass
‘Isn’t it already apparent how the peace movement is slowing down, flagging, impotent?’
