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In the age of Sex and the City, when Manhattan has been elevated to the Mecca of the world, Wolfgang Hermann prefers to wander through the red-light district, immigrant quarters, bad neighborhoods and the docks. Hermann's readers are confronted with homeless people, immigrants and the poor. Other people and their stories abound in his writing, although Hermann's poor flâneurs are not granted the privilege of merely strolling and observing, for encounters play a particularly pivotal role in his texts. With an introduction by Mark Miscovich.

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Wolfgang Hermann is constantly on the search for the next departure, the next arrival. He needs travel to foreign destinations like another person needs a line of coke. The sounds, the unfamiliar voices that don't coalesce into language, the material and the color of the unread signs, the streets that seem to lead nowhere - all coming together to create a heightened state of perception, an electrifying of the senses, a trembling of the nerves. The modern lonesome cowboy is sophisticated - a hedonist who isn't interested in how hard you can be, but how fragile. Walter van Rossum, Die Zeit Roaming the streets from the outskirts of town to the city center offers the author insights into the image and the idea of cities that reveal themselves to him through insignificant 'details' - colors, voices, scenes, gestures, and steps. The precise use of language he already exhibited in his prose miniatures (The Beautiful Life and The Names the Shadows the Days) is coupled here with the successful attempt to reinvent a literature of the city. Armin A. Wallas, Die Presse Wolfgang Hermann is an author who deserves an audience. His prose strikes a chord that pulsates through the reader. Paris Berlin New York is an outstanding work and a perfect opportunity for readers who do not read German to encounter him, for reading him is indeed an encounter. Mark Miscovich's smart and highly poetic translation is sure to put Hermann on the map of contemporary world authors making their way into English. Andrew Martino, World Literature Today

Wolfgang Hermann is constantly on the search for the next departure, the next arrival. He needs travel to foreign destinations like another person needs a line of coke. The sounds, the unfamiliar voices that don't coalesce into language, the material and the color of the unread signs, the streets that seem to lead nowhere - all coming together to create a heightened state of perception, an electrifying of the senses, a trembling of the nerves. The modern lonesome cowboy is sophisticated - a hedonist who isn't interested in how hard you can be, but how fragile. Walter van Rossum, Die Zeit Roaming the streets from the outskirts of town to the city center offers the author insights into the image and the idea of cities that reveal themselves to him through insignificant 'details' - colors, voices, scenes, gestures, and steps. The precise use of language he already exhibited in his prose miniatures (The Beautiful Life and The Names the Shadows the Days) is coupled here with the successful attempt to reinvent a literature of the city. Armin A. Wallas, Die Presse

"""Wolfgang Hermann is constantly on the search for the next departure, the next arrival. He needs travel to foreign destinations like another person needs a line of coke. The sounds, the unfamiliar voices that don't coalesce into language, the material and the color of the unread signs, the streets that seem to lead nowhere - all coming together to create a heightened state of perception, an electrifying of the senses, a trembling of the nerves. The modern lonesome cowboy is sophisticated - a hedonist who isn't interested in how hard you can be, but how fragile."" Walter van Rossum, Die Zeit ""Roaming the streets from the outskirts of town to the city center offers the author insights into the image and the idea of cities that reveal themselves to him through insignificant 'details' - colors, voices, scenes, gestures, and steps. The precise use of language he already exhibited in his prose miniatures (The Beautiful Life and The Names the Shadows the Days) is coupled here with the successful attempt to reinvent a literature of the city."" Armin A. Wallas, Die Presse ""Wolfgang Hermann is an author who deserves an audience. His prose strikes a chord that pulsates through the reader. Paris Berlin New York is an outstanding work and a perfect opportunity for readers who do not read German to encounter him, for reading him is indeed an encounter. Mark Miscovich's smart and highly poetic translation is sure to put Hermann on the map of contemporary world authors making their way into English."" Andrew Martino, World Literature Today"

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