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Walter Abish
Double Vision: A Self Portrait (Knopf) Walter Abish's most-admired novel, How German Is It, was written before the writer had ever set foot in Germany. This new book, non-fiction, finds Abish on German soil, defending his imaginary Germany...
By Michael Silverblatt • • 30m Listen: A Self Portrait
(Knopf)
Walter Abish's most-admired novel, How German Is It, was written before the writer had ever set foot in Germany. This new book, non-fiction, finds Abish on German soil, defending his imaginary Germany. We talk about irony, absence, de-familiarization and, well, double vision.
Read an excerpt from Double Vision.