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Punning for Germany | Michael Hofmann

Punning for Germany | Michael Hofmann

AdvertisementSubmit a letter:Email us letters@nybooks.comReviewed:The Short End of the Sonnenalleeby Thomas Brussig, translated from the German by Jonathan Franzen and Jenny Watson, with an introduction by Jonathan FranzenPicador, 137 pp., $16.00 (paper)It’s occurred to me from time to time that the experience of Hell would be like going around a world’s fair of national humor. In an especially bleak place, there would be German humor. This would be chiefly the inflicting of pain, toilets, and schadenfreude. Young man, remorseless masturbator, slips on some ejaculate, falls down a...

October 6, 2023
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