“…human life…always offers an amusing drama…” #novnov26 #GermanLitMonth

There are a number of authors I consider long-term favourites and whose work I’ve pretty much read everything of; and although I do like to do re-reads, I also keep an eye on what’s available in case something new turns up. This is particularly the case for translated works, and I’ve been delighted, for example, by the recent new English-language version of books by Mishima. Another author I love is Hermann Hesse, and when I had a rummage through my collection recently, I realised that I was missing a copy of one of his earliest works, “Peter Camenzind”. Noodling around online to locate a copy, I then stumbled across the an even earlier work which is a recent reissue and which I’d never heard of before – and needless to say a copy arrived at the Ramblings along with the aforementioned “Peter…”! The title in question is “In the Old Sun”, translated here by A.L. Du P. Coleman and in an edition from Coyote Canyon Press. The short introduction reveals that this was from 1904 and was first…

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