Hans Henny Jahnn: Shigekuni on Perrudja

Monday, November 9, 2009

Shigekuni on Perrudja

I'm embarrassed that I haven't updated this blog since February.

I direct you to the Shigekuni's April 2009 essay on Jahnn's Perrudja.

Originally published in 1929, the book was never translated into English, and unless I win the lottery it will likely remain untranslated. (I don't play the lottery.)

The German is available from Hoffman und Campe (1985), ISBN 3-455-03630-9.
José Corti publishes the French translation by Reinhold Werner and Jean-Claude Marcadé.

2 comments:

M. Heatherington said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; December 7, 2009 9:33 PM
andrea said...: I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Margaret

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Hans Henny Jahnn (1894 - 1959)

"Writer, playwright, renowned for his rediscovery and publishing of baroque music, organ builder and restorer, hormone researcher! The basic motto of the trilogy of novels from which this story comes was "The living are few, the dead many." Stories often appeared in his novels, with no warning and no apparent connection to their context, this text [Kebad Kenya] being a case in point. Jahnn was a unique writer who rejected conventional morals and institutions and conjured up a pan-eroticism and anti-civilisatory standpoint, where time and place melt and merge. He has never been widely popular but is often cited as one of the most important German writers of this century."

--Bio from Atlas's Black Letters Unleashed anthology.

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