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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Lithuania (Versus aureus)After the suicide of his best friend, Rudolf, the narrator is summoned to attend to his estate. A difficult undertaking, as Rudolf, a well known writer and professor, had amassed not only a rather extensive collection of house pets on his deck during the past years, but also a literal mountain of books and research materials, somewhere under which supposedly lies his Opus Magnum, a companion and key to...
Would he have gone to Turin if he had known what awaited him there?
After the suicide of his best friend, Rudolf, the narrator is summoned to attend to his estate. A difficult undertaking, as Rudolf, a well known writer and professor, had amassed not only a rather extensive collection of house pets on his deck during the past years, but also a literal mountain of books and research materials, somewhere under which supposedly lies his Opus Magnum, a companion and key to the German federal mentality over the last 60 years, something Rudolf allegedly worked on »like a maniac«.
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Michael Krüger
Michael Krüger was born in Saxony in 1943 and lives in Munich. While completing his training as a bookseller and printer, he attended seminars in the philosophical faculty of the Freie Universität in Berlin. Between 1962 and 1965, Krüger lived in London, where he worked as a bookseller. In 1966, he began working as a literary critic. Two years later, in 1968, he became an editor at Carl Hanser Verlag, taking the reins in 1986, before stepping back in 2013. Since 1981, he has been the editor of the literary magazine Akzente. He has published several volumes of poetry and short stories, as well as a number of novels.
Michael Krüger was born in Saxony in 1943 and lives in Munich. While completing his training as a bookseller and printer, he attended seminars in...
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Among Poets
In his new volume, Among Poets, he again...
Rendezvous with Poets
In 2013, an era comes to an end in Munich. Michael Krüger, the long-time publisher of Hanser Verlag, retires from his active role in the day-to-day business operations of the publishing house. He didn’t just manage the publishing house and edit the magazine Akzente. He remains active as a poet and write, as a literary critic, editor and translator. He is omnipresent and...
What Happened in the Two Weeks After Returning from Paris
In the Forest, In the Wooden House
Poland (Instytut Mikolowski), Serbia (Dereta), Bosnia (Lijepa Rijec)
Seasonal Time Change
This new volume of Michael Krüger’s poetical-lyrical explorations of nature, after Just Before the Storm (2003), Under the Open Sky (2007) and Clarity (2010), is...
English world rights (Seagull), France (selection; Sajat), Denmark (Epilog)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Mondadori)
The Wrong House
France (Seuil)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Russia (Ast Press Kniga), Netherlands (Bezige Bij)