5/26/2023 0 Comments Book review go went gone![]() ![]() ![]() Now available in Susan Bernofsky’s deft and supple translation, Go, Went, Gone alludes through its title’s conjugations to the one activity that the German government sponsors for the refugees: language classes. ![]() In a work that is at once fiercely urgent and profoundly meditative, Erpenbeck underscores the central truth that the engagement with the Other inevitably entails a reckoning with the self. Her protagonist, Richard, a widower and retired classics professor, undertakes a project to interview refugees from Africa who have staged a hunger strike in Berlin to protest their legal limbo. In her latest novel, Go, Went, Gone, Jenny Erpenbeck, 2018 Puterbaugh Fellow, addresses the current refugee crisis that has had far-reaching political ramifications on both sides of the Atlantic. ![]()
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