Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections

Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections by Jenny Erpenbeck. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781783786091.

A collection of intimate and explosive essays on literature, life, history, politics and place from the award-winning author of Go, Went Gone and The End of Days Europes outstanding literary seer - the Guardian Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbecks non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing, the book plots a journey through the works and subjects that have inspired and influenced her. Written with the same clarity and insight that characterize her fiction, the pieces range from literary criticism and reflections on Germanys history, to the autobiographical essays where Erpenbeck forgoes the literary cloak to write from a deeply personal perspective about life and politics, hope and despair, and the role of the writer in grappling with these forces. Here we see one of the most searching of European writers reckoning with her countrys divided past in all its complexity, and responding to the world today with insight, intelligence and humanity.