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Kahn & Engelmann

Hans Eichner’s first novel (and last—he passed away earlier this year), originally published in 2000 in Austria, was released in English last month, directly after the eminent German scholar’s death. Kahn & Engelmann opens with a joke: a traveling joke and a Jewish joke. In the summer of 1938, a Jewish ...

Latest Review: "Kahn & Engelmann" by Hans Eichner

The latest addition to our review section is a piece by Lara Ericson (one of our summer interns) on Hans Eichner’s Kahn & Engelmann, which was published earlier this year by Biblioasis in Canada (Windsor to be more specific), and translated from the German by Jean M. Snook. Biblioasis is one of the most ...

Hans Eichner's Kahn & Engelmann

(This post could be subtitled, “The Beginning of a Canadian Bender . . .” but more on that over the next couple days.) One of the most exciting Canadian presses that I’ve come across in recent times is Biblioasis, in part because of their International Translation series, and in part because of Joshua ...