‘A sort of Jewish 𝘉𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴, though 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 doesn’t have the purpose, the control or the independence of Thomas Mann’s novel; rather, it sits, like a sort of flywheel or epiphenomenon, on history.’
Michael Hofmann on Gabriele Tergit’s Berlin saga.
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Gabriele Tergit’s The Effingers is a remarkable way of rendering history. That said, stasis, being, durée,...
