The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Birgit Vanderbeke's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize-shortlisted novel(la), The Mussel Feast.
It does seem to have established itself as a modern German classic of sorts, taught in school, etc. -- but it's still fun to see some of the early reactions, including Rolf Michaelis shredding it to pieces (warning that the 110-page work felt like a 1000-pager and comparing it (very) unfavorably to Thomas Bernhard) in Die Zeit when it came out.
It does seem to have established itself as a modern German classic of sorts, taught in school, etc. -- but it's still fun to see some of the early reactions, including Rolf Michaelis shredding it to pieces (warning that the 110-page work felt like a 1000-pager and comparing it (very) unfavorably to Thomas Bernhard) in Die Zeit when it came out.