“We were like two survivors clinging to the wreckage of a sunken ship, each of us silently screaming in the dark.” Chapter 1: Return to the Village The […]
German literature
The German Lesson
“A person who doesn’t forget is like a person who carries a stone in his pocket.” Part 1: The Assignment Siggi Jepsen, a young inmate at a juvenile […]
German literature
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Chapter 1: The Faehmel Family Reunion The novel opens on September 6, 1958, as Robert Faehmel, a reserved architect, […]
German literature
The Tin Drum
“Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there’s a peephole in the door, […]
German literature
Homecoming
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Chapter 1: Peter Debauer’s Childhood Peter Debauer grows up in post-war Germany, raised by his mother and grandparents. His […]
English literature
Mrs Dalloway
“Fear no more the heat o’ the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages.” — William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (epigraph in Mrs Dalloway) Morning in Westminster Clarissa Dalloway, a high-society […]