
Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig
by Christina
Fiction – Kindle edition. Translated from the German by Tess Lewis. Peirene Press, 2011. Originally published 2006. 110 pgs. Library copy. The publisher of Peirene Press, Meike Ziervogel, compared Hotschnig to Franz Kafka in her short introduction to this short story collection, writing that “here we have a Kafkaesque sense of alienation – not to mention narrative experiments galore!”. Having never read Kafka, I cannot comment on the similarity between Hotschnig and Kafka. What I can comment on is the […]
Categories: 2019 Reads, Europe, Fiction, German, Peirene Press, Short Stories, Translated • Tags: Alois Hotschnig, Tess Lewis