Just as Erpenbeck does not really examine the causes of Richard’s change of heart, so she is wary of bestowing anything like easy 'redemption' on her protagonist (and hence on her novel). Erpenbeck’s novel is usefully prosaic, written in a slightly uninviting, almost managerial present tense, which keeps overt emotion at bay. In her latest novel, Go, Went, Gone, Jenny Erpenbeck, 2018 Puterbaugh Fellow, addresses the current refugee crisis that has had far-reaching political. Naipaul of The Enigma of Arrival, and Teju Cole’s Naipaul-influenced Open City. (Susan Bernofsky deserves immense credit for bringing this prose to us in English.) Among contemporary Anglophone writers, this classical restraint calls to mind J. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he. The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. Her task is comprehension rather than replication, and she uses a measured, lyrically austere prose, whose even tread barely betrays the considerable passion that drives it onward. Jenny Erpenbecks novel Gehen, ging, gegangen (2015, Go, Went, Gone) appeared at the height of the 2015 migrant crisis but is based on the occupation of. Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation ( The Millions ). UPDATED, 8:16 AM first posted at 9:06 p.m. In a novelistic tradition still largely dedicated to the treatment of. Jenny Erpenbeck’s magnificent novel Go, Went, Gone is about 'the central moral question of our time,' and among its many virtues is that it is not only alive to the suffering of people who are very different from us but alive to the false consolations of telling 'moving' stories about people who are very different from us. Erpenbeck, who was born in East Berlin in 1967, is an original writer. New York Times Notable Book2018 Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2018 Lois Roth Award Winner An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee.

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