Walter Jens has passed away; see, for example, the DeutscheWelle report German writer and intellectual Walter Jens dies.
More essayist than fiction-writer, I nevertheless enjoyed his novels Nein (which Der Spiegel reported sold much better in French (22,000 copies by 1952) than the German original (3000 copies)) and Herr Meister (see (German) reviews in Der Spiegel and Die Zeit).
More essayist than fiction-writer, I nevertheless enjoyed his novels Nein (which Der Spiegel reported sold much better in French (22,000 copies by 1952) than the German original (3000 copies)) and Herr Meister (see (German) reviews in Der Spiegel and Die Zeit).