tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305631555616445080.post3692489609442458895..comments2024-02-27T13:06:28.163+01:00Comments on love german books: Crispin and Johnson Talk Böllkjdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16236984779717127341noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305631555616445080.post-33169865364647556722010-12-11T09:20:01.138+01:002010-12-11T09:20:01.138+01:00Daniel - I thought I'd bite the bullet and go ...Daniel - I thought I'd bite the bullet and go for the Böll book I find the most terrifying. For my karma, or something. <br /><br />Also, it turns out that the three titles Melville House are releasing first are Ansichten eines Clowns, which I gave up on many, many year ago, Billard um halb zehn, which sounds even worse, and Fürsorgliche Belagerung, which I read and actually appreciated. <br kjdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16236984779717127341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305631555616445080.post-34749062064665149182010-12-10T22:05:26.263+01:002010-12-10T22:05:26.263+01:00KJD, really -- don't read it if you don't ...KJD, really -- don't read it if you don't want to: honest! I won't say anything. I'm willing to admit that it gained a special place in my estimation (perhaps) for entirely accidental reasons (i.e., it was the first serious book I read in German more or less without a dictionary). Oh, and did I mention I have family in Ireland? Yet, I imagine, if you had handed it to me in high Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01224874392996053957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305631555616445080.post-4627324722964454942010-12-10T22:05:09.332+01:002010-12-10T22:05:09.332+01:00KJD, really -- don't read it if you don't ...KJD, really -- don't read it if you don't want to: honest! I won't say anything. I'm willing to admit that it gained a special place in my estimation (perhaps) for entirely accidental reasons (i.e., it was the first serious book I read in German more or less without a dictionary). Oh, and did I mention I have family in Ireland? Yet, I imagine, if you had handed it to me in high Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01224874392996053957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305631555616445080.post-26546376207894736182010-12-10T09:36:18.874+01:002010-12-10T09:36:18.874+01:00@MM - maybe that's the problem. Maybe all lect...@MM - maybe that's the problem. Maybe all lecturers secretly hate Böll and can't instill any enthusiasm in their students for that very reason. <br /><br />Scary thought.kjdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16236984779717127341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305631555616445080.post-40040327013827193592010-12-10T09:34:39.903+01:002010-12-10T09:34:39.903+01:00*Sigh* - Daniel, OK, I'll bloody read the bloo...*Sigh* - Daniel, OK, I'll bloody read the bloody Irish bloody Journal. Just so nobody can say I'm missing anything because of my puerile prejudices. I'm reading it in English though.kjdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16236984779717127341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305631555616445080.post-23119691815487577472010-12-10T07:21:57.143+01:002010-12-10T07:21:57.143+01:00Well, that is rather historic, isn't it? I mea...Well, that is rather historic, isn't it? I mean, isn't that the very first translation ever of his Irisches Tagebuch into English? I'm glad of that. I don't know about his other books, but I wonder what -specifically- you don't like about the Irisches Tagebuch, if you would want to say? : it was one of the first books I read through in German as I was first learning German Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01224874392996053957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305631555616445080.post-34355887357800842622010-12-09T18:26:55.822+01:002010-12-09T18:26:55.822+01:00Oh dear - I do agree. I haven't even read Kath...Oh dear - I do agree. I haven't even read Katharina Blum, and I do suspect it's better, but I spent a couple of years teaching two or three early Böll books to undergraduates with subsidiary German, and I loathed them. I had a feeling that they were just not suited to close study, and that I was being unfair. Kafka's stories and Novellen were right up my street. Reading the linked MMhttp://transblawg.eunoreply@blogger.com