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Jarmila by Ernst Weiss

Jarmila by Ernst Weiss Tanslated by Rebecca Morrison and Petra Howard-Wuerz Afterword by Peter Engel Pushkin PressJarmila is one of those instances when most of what I have to say about a book has already been said. I’ll defer to Max at Pechorin’s Journal. And now that I look, I also see Guy at His […]

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The Eyewitness by Ernst Weiss

The Eyewitness by Ernst Weiss Translated by Ella R. W. McKee Foreword by Rudolph Binion, Postscript by Klaus-Peter Hinze Houghton Mifflin Company, 206 pages, Hardcover ISBN: 0-395-25336-5 With the years going by, emptiness is growing around me. I am still living, feeling, having desires and hopes. I do not fear death itself, but I dread […]

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Georg Letham: Physi­cian and Mur­derer by Ernst Weiss: “Illnesses interested me, the ill did not”

Georg Letham: Physi­cian and Mur­derer by Ernst Weiss Translation by Joel Roten­berg Arch­i­pel­ago Books, 560 pages, Paperback ISBN: 0980033039 / 978-0980033038As you can tell from the list of sections in this post the focus of Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer goes well beyond the murder and trial of his wife. After Georg’s conviction for the […]