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Uwe Johnson was a letter writer, but he seldom wrote anything personal, however much his addressees longed for something of that nature. Instead, many of his letters contain Johnson miniatures: townscapes, literary character descriptions, impressions. Of course, there are also other letters that reveal the easily vulnerable author - letters that seek to create distance, set limits. In recent years many volumes of letters have been published, setting the focus of this volume: Johnson's correspondence with Walter Kempowski, Fritz J. Raddatz, Günter and Anna Grass, Max Frisch and Siegfried Unseld give us insight into difficult relations and at the same time present a literary historical panorama of the 1960s and '70s.Also included in the volume are a comparison of Johnson and Hein, two "Chroniclers of Reality", re-readings of "Heute Neunzig Jahr" and "Skizze eines Verunglückten" as well as in-depth reviews.
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Michael Hofmann wurde 1957 in Freiburg geboren und lebt seit seinem fünften Lebensjahr in England. Nach einem Studium der Anglistik in Cambridge lebt er zusammen mit seiner Frau, der Schriftstellerin Lavinia Greenlaw, in London. Michael Hofmanns Gedichte wurden mit dem Cholmondeley Award und dem Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize ausgezeichnet. Michael Hofmann hat u. a. Bertolt Brecht, Franz Kafka, Wolfgang Koeppen, Herta Müller, Joseph Roth, Patrick Süßkind und Kurt Tucholsky ins Englische übertragen.
