Panorama by H.G. Adler - ISBN: 9780812980608
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A boy’s life, a world destroyed, seen through young eyes.

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  • Paperback

    480 pages

  • Release Date

    15 February 2012

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Summary

From the author of “modernist masterpieces worthy of comparison to those of Kafka or Musil,” a brilliant epic about a place and people soon to be destroyed, as seen through the eyes of a young boy.

Only recently available for the first time in English, Panorama is the newly rediscovered first novel of H. G. Adler, a modernist master whose work has been compared to that of Kafka, Joyce, and Solzhenitsyn. A brilliant epic told in ten distinct vignettes, Panorama is a portrait of a place…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780812980608
ISBN-10:0812980603
Author:H.G. Adler, Peter Filkins, Peter Demetz
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Modern Library Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:480
Release Date:15 February 2012
Weight:357g
Dimensions:203mm x 131mm x 28mm
Series:Modern Library Classics
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Praise for H. G. Adler’s The Journey, translated by Peter Filkins

“The Journey and Panorama … are modernist masterpieces worthy of comparison to those of Kafka or Musil.”—The New Yorker “Haunting … as remarkable for its literary experimentation as for its historical testimony.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Panorama should have been the brilliant debut of a major German writer… . It’s hard to fathom why we had to wait so long… . Under any circumstances, let alone such harsh ones, his accomplishments would be remarkable.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice) “Astonishing … Works such as Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and H. G. Adler’s … Panorama draw the strength of their narrative from direct memory.”—Simon Schama, Financial Times “[A] stirring novel … expertly and elegantly translated by Peter Filkins.”—Los Angeles Times

About The Author

H.G. Adler

H. G. Adler was the author of twenty-six books of fiction, poetry, philosophy, and history. Born in Prague in 1910, Adler was a survivor of the Holocaust. He later settled in England and began writing about his experience. Adler died in London in 1988.

Peter Filkins is an acclaimed translator and the recipient of a Berlin Prize fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. He teaches writing and literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

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