- Paperback: 64 pages
- Publisher: One World Classics (July 12 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1847490859
- ISBN-13: 978-1847490858
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.7 x 0.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 82 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #711,235 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Like a jewelry chest, the covers of this book open on a gem of German prose, brought to its full radiance by Richard Sieburth’s splendid translation, accompanied by the German original as usually befits only poetry, and set among extensive notes and additional texts which allow the reader to appreciate its historical importance as well as its present powerful effect. I’d like to call Lenz a score, a score to go mad over …"
—William H. Gass
"Richard Sieburth is one of handful of magnificent literary translators among us—witness his Hölderlin, Nerval, Scève, and Gershom Scholem’s poems. His extraordinary rendition of Büchner’s Lenz is both a superb version and a startling interpretation of a great and vital work. The beautifully produced little volume is amazingly rich, giving us Büchner’s 'source' in Oberlin, Goethe’s reflections upon Lenz himself, and crucial commentary."—Harold Bloom
"Büchner’s Lenz represents a brilliant and widely influential prefiguring of the modernist narrative imagination. For the first time, thanks to Richard Sieburth’s astonishing skills, we have a version in English that respects and communicates the radical inventiveness and stylistic singularity of the original. It is a work that fully breathes in the present."—Michael Palmer
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Set against the beautiful backdrop of the Vosges Mountains, this chilling novella tells the tale of the real-life writer J.M.R. Lenz’s 19-day stay in Waldersbach in 1778. It describes his wanderings around the mountainous surroundings and his worsening fits of madness that eventually culminate in his removal, under guard, to Strasbourg. Valued both as a chilling exploration of paranoid schizophrenia and an influential forerunner of literary modernism, this existential drama boasts a prose style startlingly ahead of its time.
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A magnificently restless reading, Mar 3 2011
By Mme - Published on Amazon.com
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Compelling translation of a far not enough known masterpiece, this edition of Lenz can be read in one sitting - correction, cannot but be read in one sitting.Richard Sieburth, currently a mostly admired professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at NYU, does a great job in rendering in English the fragmented structure and excruciating rhythm of Lenz's thoughts and action as he breaks down into paranoiac attacks and suicidal attempts. This Lenz is the essence of the Romantic narrative, but at the same time has that note of modern stream of consciousness that makes it appealing to a larger audience.
The book includes both versions of Lenz's story, the one told by Oberlin's diaries and the one reorganized by Buchner, as well as ample commentaries and a text by Goethe (not by chance, since Lenz was among Goethe's greatest admirers and emulators).
This edition, sold by an independent publishing house in Brooklyn, is just the perfect size to always keep in your pocket.
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Lenz, Dec 12 2011
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This is a great book with 5 short stories in it. The German on one page and English on another is very helpful. I would recommend this book to anyone learning German.
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