The Country Road: Stories
Regina Ullman
(Author)
Kurt Beals
(Translator)
Description
Never before in English, Regina Ullmann's work is distinctive and otherworldly, resonant of nineteenth-century village tales and of authors such as Adalbert Stifter and her contemporary Robert Walser. In the stories of The Country Road, largely set in the Swiss countryside, the archaic and the modern collide, and "sometimes the whole world appears to be painted on porcelain, right down to the dangerous cracks." this delicate but fragile beauty, with its ominous undertones, gives Ullmann her unique voice.
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
January 20, 2015
Pages
160
Dimensions
5.1 X 8.2 X 0.4 inches | 0.3 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811220057
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About the Author
Admired by Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, and particularly Rainer Maria Rilke, Regina Ullmann became famous with the 1921 publication of this collection. After a difficult life ("I went by the detour instead of by the way"), she died in 1961.
Kurt Beals is associate professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis. His previous translations include works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Reiner Stach, Regina Ullmann, and Anja Utler.
Reviews
A pure poetic talent: everything is full of mystery.--Hermann Hesse
To read your book for me is such a multiplicity of joys that I can only gradually cope with it.--Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Regina Ullmann
Her voice is something holy.--Thomas Mann
A triumphant translation.
Regina Ullmann has a sense of authenticity and a touch of genius.--Robert Musil
Ullmann is a one-off, an original, a really deeply peculiar writer.--Michael Hofmann
Its language feels timeless--rich and cavernous and haunted.--Kevin Nguyen
Ullmann delicately balances each of her characters' emotions on a pinpoint, presenting both the beauty and fragility of every momentary feeling.--Jan Anspach
It's as if Ullmann takes biblical wisdom literature, strips it of all moral judgment, and then spins it with rotating moments of natural bliss and existential fear.--Jonathan Sturgeon
To read your book for me is such a multiplicity of joys that I can only gradually cope with it.--Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Regina Ullmann
Her voice is something holy.--Thomas Mann
A triumphant translation.
Regina Ullmann has a sense of authenticity and a touch of genius.--Robert Musil
Ullmann is a one-off, an original, a really deeply peculiar writer.--Michael Hofmann
Its language feels timeless--rich and cavernous and haunted.--Kevin Nguyen
Ullmann delicately balances each of her characters' emotions on a pinpoint, presenting both the beauty and fragility of every momentary feeling.--Jan Anspach
It's as if Ullmann takes biblical wisdom literature, strips it of all moral judgment, and then spins it with rotating moments of natural bliss and existential fear.--Jonathan Sturgeon
