Kurt Beals
Kurt Beals is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at Washington University in St Louis.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 152
Open Bookkeeping
Jenny Erpenbeck
‘I write an obituary that appears in the newspaper that she always used to read while drinking her afternoon tea. I receive €170.03 for the obituary.’
Translated from the German by Kurt Beals.
