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“... story, as it races along with no paragraphs and a minimum of punctuation. The translation – by Carol BrownJaneway, who translated Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader – seems faultless. In his photograph on the back flap of the wrapper, Treichel looks amused – a merry fellow. The cover photograph on Von Leibund ...”

“... translators David McLintock and Ewald Osers, in 2003 and 2011 respectively; and in 2015 that of Carol BrownJaneway, his publisher at Knopf, his unlikely champion over decades (because, for all his influence and cultishness, Bernhard in English never exactly sold), and the translator herself of the posthumous My ...”

“... Last year in Bonn in the brand-new Museum of Modern History (Haus der Geschichte) I watched a video about concentration camps. A row of female guards captured by the Allies stood in line, middle-aged and grim. Then a younger one spoke straight to camera. She was blonde and dishevelled; she said her name, her age – 24 – and that she had been at Belsen two months ...”

“... And doesn’t every noun in German require a capital? In fact there’s nothing wrong with Carol BrownJaneway’s translation since Arthur uses the more solemn and Latinate word Fatum, and glosses it as ‘das grosse F’ – ‘the big F’, as cancer is ‘the big C’. Both​ these books dramatise the fault ...”