Gunter Grass called him the most significant of all East German writers. So why did Uwe Johnson choose to live in the unlikely setting of Sheerness, Kent, asks John Goudie. To his fellow drinkers in ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There is a Borges story about a map so exact, so precisely detailed, it grew to the size of the place it depicted. The map had become ...

Although less overtly experimental than Johnson's earlier work, Zwei Ansichten lends itself to being read as a complex narrative structure. Two parallel stories recount a casual relationship between a ...

European modernists used the novel as a means of mapping metropolitan experience. From James Joyce’s immortalizing of “dear, dirty Dublin” in Ulysses, to the grimy urban paean of Alfred Döblin’s ...

SPECULATIONS ABOUT JAKOB (240 pp.)—Uwe Johnson—Grove ($4.50). There is often high art in knowing when to say nothing at all. and Uwe Johnson has mastered it. One of a handful of young German writers ...

On the occasion of the first complete translation of Uwe Johnson’s magnum opus Anniversaries (New York Review Books, 2018, trans. Damion Searls), the Goethe-Institut New York presents a book launch, ...

You are right, as I was, to be intimidated by the sheer number of pages—1668—of Uwe Johnson’s novel, Anniversaries. This may be the longest novel that you/I will ever read, but I can assure you that ...

First published in German in the early 1970s, Uwe Johnson's two-part mammoth work, Anniversaries is a publishing phenomenon, for its page count alone, running to over 1,600 pages. Manhattan is the ...

The day was a favorite unit of time for the modernist novel. James Joyce’s “Ulysses” demonstrated that one day in Dublin, June 16, 1904, could contain an epic of consciousness. Virginia Woolf had Mrs.

When the Napier Tavern on Alma Road in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey was put up for auction in 2019, Kent Online vaunted its association with two local celebrities: ‘Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em star ...