Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Author, Pier Spence, Translator, Martin Chalmers, Translator New Press $18 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56584-208-3
``Which is stranger: killing people you know, or destroying an opponent you have absolutely no conception of?'' asks Enzensberger (Europe, Europe), who points out that civil war is nothing new; ``cultivated'' war between nations is the ``relatively...
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Author, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Translator, Michael Hamburger, Translator Sheep Meadow Press $13.95 (88p) ISBN 978-1-878818-72-0
In over 40 years' work, German poet and cultural critic Enzenberger has captured the complex interlayerings of public and private realities, ultimately testifying to their difficult inseparability, their conflicts and contradictions. The product of...
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Author, Michael Henry Heim, Translator, Rotraut Susanne Berner, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $30 (262p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5770-6
Exceptionally handsome four-color illustrations and vignettes deepen the magic of this mathematically minded fantasy, Enzensberger's (Europe, Europe) first book for children. Robert is plagued by bad dreams until a mysterious creature called the...
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Author, Linda Haverty Rugg, Translator, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Preface by New Press $25 (342p) ISBN 978-1-56584-436-0
Munich-based German poet, essayist and editor Enzensberger (Mediocrity and Delusion; Civil Wars) reveals his forcefully lyrical sensibility in this new collection of essays. His subjects range from a look at Bartolome de Las Casas, the Spanish...
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Author, Reinhold Grimm, Translator Sheep Meadow Press $14.95 (161p) ISBN 978-1-878818-85-0
In 1999, Sheep Meadow brought out a Selected Enzensberger, as well as Kiosk, a collection of newer work. Both featured magnificent translations by Michael Hamburger, and both brought the poet's tremendous political and lexical force to the fore. Yet
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Author, Helena Franklin, Editor, Martin Chalmers, Translator Pantheon Books $18.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-394-55819-6
Enzensberger's disillusioned travel diary based on his wanderings through six European countries is an acerbically witty look at a continent beset by corruption, shadow economies, discredited political parties, and laboring under a crazy-quilt of...
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Author Henry Holt & Company $18 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6571-8
A 13-year-old travels deeper and deeper into the past in this clever if not entirely satisfying tale by the author of The Number Devil. Robert seems ordinary enough, except for his photographic memory and ""something funny about his eyes."" Watching
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Author, Michael Henry Heim, Translator, Rotraut Susanne Berner, Illustrator Metropolitan Books $19.99 (262p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6299-1
In a starred review, PW noted that ""exceptionally handsome four-color illustrations and vignettes deepen the magic of this mathematically minded fantasy. For certain kinds of readers--chess players, puzzle enthusiasts--this will be a favorite.""...
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Author, Michael Hamburger, Translator, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Translator Sheep Meadow Press $19.95 (281p) ISBN 978-1-878818-73-7
In over 40 years' work, German poet and cultural critic Enzenberger has captured the complex interlayerings of public and private realities, ultimately testifying to their difficult inseparability, their conflicts and contradictions. The product of...
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