Contemporary German Fiction: Hans Bender, Gerhard Köpf, Siegfried Lenz, and others

by A. Leslie Willson

Summary

Short fiction is something infinite, uncircumscribed, and uninhibited. Even in its finite form, it contains boundless variety and possibility. The present collection, edited by A. Leslie Willson, contains a wide range of work by some of the most accomplished German-speaking writers of our time: Ilse Aichinger, Jurek Becker, Hans Bender, Wolfgang Borchert, Thomas Brasch, Hannah Johansen, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Gerhard Köpf, Siegfried Lenz, Reinhard Lettau, Christa Reinig, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Gabriele Wohmann, and others.