Word: manheim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paul Labotz Manheim...
...nter Grass; translated by Ralph Manheim...
Translated by Ralph Manheim; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 89 pages...
...usual ways. Marianne does not ruminate in an interesting or even terribly coherent manner about her situation. Other characters tell her that she may come to a bad end but do not say why. There is no fancy writing to divert the eye or the mind. Translator Ralph Manheim captures an English equivalent of Handke's German prose: dry, simple and spare, as if the author were trying to strip language of as much resonance as possible. Even forward momentum is thwarted; the story is chopped into segments, some hardly more than snippets: "On a cold morning the woman...
...Jerome H. Manheim...