Lenz - Georg Buchner Masayoshi Nakajo A half century after its

A half century after its first appearance

” where they inspect a library

and find himself taken for some naïve provincial…”

“reviews” is a misnomer for most of Butts’s shorter pieces

Lenz - Georg Buchner Masayoshi Nakajo A half century after itsLenz by Georg Buchner, translated by Richard Sieburth ISBN 9780974968025 199 page paperback with flaps from Archipelago Books *** Lenz, Georg Bchners visionary exploration of an 18th century playwrights descent into madness, has been called the inception of European modernist prose. Elias Canetti considered this short novella one of the decisive reading experiences of his life, and writers as various as Paul Celan, Christa Wolff, Peter Schneider, and