My final review for this year #GermanLitMonth event is of Thomas Bernhard's short novel YES.
https://roughghosts.com/2022/12/04/everything-about-everybody-is-nothing-but-diversion-from-death-yes-by-thomas-bernard/

November is #germanlitmonth and I have two reviews left to post. The first is this graphic interpretation of Joyce's Ulysses by the wonderful Nicolas Mahler.

https://roughghosts.com/2022/12/02/a-viennese-odyssey-ulysses-by-nicolas-mahler-after-james-joyce/

Not yet in the practice of linking my reviews here yet. One of my final reads for #germanlitmonth is the minimalist fragmentary novel The Sea in the Radio by Jürgen Becker, translated by Alexander Booth.
https://roughghosts.com/2022/11/30/quiet-the-evening-through-till-dawn-the-sea-in-the-radio-journal-sentences-by-jurgen-becker/

Not my final contribution to this year's #germanlitmonth event, but the last review I'll get up before December arrives.
https://roughghosts.com/2022/11/30/quiet-the-evening-through-till-dawn-the-sea-in-the-radio-journal-sentences-by-jurgen-becker/

Ten books finished this month, five by women/POC, and eight in German thanks to #GermanLitMonth! http://chinese-poems.com/blog/?p=2457

#GermanLitMonth book 9 (ish): The Appointment, Katharina Volckmer. Written in English, so another slight cheat. Energetically shocking, for most of the book it's great fun, but I thought trying a bit too hard. The final sections add an impressive emotional weight, though.

#GermanLitMonth book 8: Zur See, Dörte Hansen. Exactly what she does so well: eccentric, but relatable characters dealing with a changing social and literal landscape. This time the sea and the North Sea island give a particularly vivid sense of place.

#GermanLitMonth book 7: Prosastücke, by Robert Walser. My second try at Walser, but I can't really get on with the archness. Glad I kept reading for the last two parable-like stories, though: Schwendimann and Ich habe nichts.

#GermanLitMonth book 6: Nebenan, by Kristine Bilkau. Short and atmospheric, with a very symbolic canal running through the village. Bilkau assembles themes and draws (sometimes forced) connections between neighbours in a story where a lot is left unresolved. That's life, though!

#GermanLitMonth book 5: Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes, by Clemens J. Setz. A relatively early collection of stories, I think not as subtle as his later ones, but it's still full of wonderful images.

New on my site, roughghosts, a review of Friederike Mayröcker's Requiem for Ernst Jandl. #germanlitmonth
https://roughghosts.com/2022/11/15/is-he-really-gone-requiem-for-ernst-jandl-by-friederike-mayrocker/

#GermanLitMonth book 4: Nozomi Horibe's comic of her cycle tour of Brandenburg is certainly "something different". Touching and amusing (often at her own expense), and beautifully drawn in almost monochrome.

#GermanLitMonth book 3, from a favourite author: Die Haarteppichknüpfer, by Andreas Eschbach. An odd mixture of pseudo-Mediaeval and sci-fi world-building, reminiscent of Iain M Banks. The final revelation was a bit underwhelming, but the earlier sections were intriguing.

2nd #GermanLitMonth book, skipping to week 2 of my plan: Das Archiv der Gefühle, my second book by #PeterStamm. Took me a while to get into, as it lacks the humour of the first, but it's a great exploration of truth and fantasy through a very unreliable narrator's monologue.

RT @JacquiWine@twitter.com

From the archive for #GermanLitMonth, thoughts on AFTER MIDNIGHT by Irmgard Keun (tr. Anthea Bell), a fascinating insight into a country on the brink of self-destruction.
First published in 1937, the novel remains very relevant today. #ArchiveDay

https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/after-midnight-by-irmgard-keun/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JacquiWine/status/1588851458677833728

First #GermanLitMonth book finished: Momo, by Michael Ende. The earlier sections are reminiscent of The Little Prince, with parable-like episodes (and both books straddle the children's book/literature divide). Later it becomes a more conventional, but enjoyable, adventure story.