Guy Vanderhaeghe: The Last Crossing

Guy Vanderhaeghe: The Last Crossing

An illusion so cheering I came to write it – poems dedicated to what might have been. In my verse, Lucy still hovers beyond my reach, but there I can gaze upon her as nowhere else. It brings a tiny leap of life, a small stirring in the depths of my dusty heart. Ein...
Cormac McCarthy: Cities of the Plain

Cormac McCarthy: Cities of the Plain

Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of. »Cities of the Plain«, der dritte Teil von Cormac...
Robert Penn Warren: All the King’s Men

Robert Penn Warren: All the King’s Men

If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting. Willie Stark will unbedingt Gouverneur werden,...
Joseph O’Connor: Redemption Falls

Joseph O’Connor: Redemption Falls

He writes like one who knows how to hurt. It is rarely what you say, but what you omit, that hurts. Hurt is a matter of editing. In »Redemption Falls« rekonstruiert ein hochinteressanter, kreativer Erzähler die Geschichte seiner Vorfahren zur Zeit des amerikanischen...