Public Life
Pat Rogers, 1 April 1982
A Model Childhood
by Christa Wolf, translated by Ursule Molinaro and Hedwig Rappolt.
Virago, 407 pp., £8.95, April 1982,0 86068 253 6 Show More
by Christa Wolf, translated by Ursule Molinaro and Hedwig Rappolt.
Virago, 407 pp., £8.95, April 1982,
The Safety Net
by Heinrich Böll, translated by Leila Vennewitz.
Secker, 314 pp., £7.50, March 1982,9780436054549 Show More
by Heinrich Böll, translated by Leila Vennewitz.
Secker, 314 pp., £7.50, March 1982,
The Country of her Dreams
by Janice Elliott.
Hodder, 186 pp., £6.95, March 1982,0 340 27830 7 Show More
by Janice Elliott.
Hodder, 186 pp., £6.95, March 1982,
The Soul’s Gymansium and Other Stories
by Harold Acton.
Hamish Hamilton, 165 pp., £7.95, February 1982,0 241 10740 7 Show More
by Harold Acton.
Hamish Hamilton, 165 pp., £7.95, February 1982,
“... The original title of Christa Wolf’s novel, Kindheitsmuster, could mean something like ‘a pattern of childhood’, but her translators have rightly gone for a more idiomatic expression. In turning the noun into an attributive adjective, they’ve stressed the idea of an exemplary upbringing, and that is wholly apt. The career of Nelly Jordan is normative, within a certain German (though here specifically Nazi) tradition ... ”
