Gerhard Kopf, Author, Amin Maalouf, Author, Leslie Willson, Translator George Braziller $18.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1342-9
An intriguing parable about the necessity of art, and about the danger of substituting art for life, Kopf's clever new novel is narrated by an eccentric German bookseller, a loner and bibliomaniac who nurtures a lifelong obsession with Hemingway's...
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Gerhard Kopf, Author, Leslie Willson, Translator George Braziller $22.5 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1473-0
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, master engraver of the 18th century, is the subject of this fictionalized life by German novelist and university professor K pf. Styled as a long soliloquy, the novel details Piranesi's tumultuous career. The artist's...
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Gerhard Kopf, Author, Leslie Willson, Translator George Braziller $18.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1326-9
Making his American debut, a German novelist offers up a densely allusive but energetic discourse on the distinctions between life and literature. Kopf's narrator is a German professor and a self-styled Lusitanist (after the Lusitania ), one for...
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Gerhard Kopf, Author, Leslie Willson, Translator Camden House (NY) $29.95 (239p) ISBN 978-1-57113-182-9
In these two short novels, the Bavarian-born Kopf plunges into a thick exploration of insanity and the imagination in order to tackle concerns--German-ness, freedom, revelation through fantasy--that he shares with other postwar German novelists....
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