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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...
...acceptability, will not get the careful consideration they deserve in the wake of such superficial faddism. The twenty-three Stories of Five Decades (only three of them previously available in English) will certainly lend some more weight to the arguments both for and against Hesse. And assuming that Ralph Manheim's translation is tolerably faithful, these stories might even help clarify some of the underlying problems of Hesse's writing...
translated by RALPH MANHEIM...