The Interim Hilbig Wolfgang
The Interim Hilbig Wolfgang "Comic and terrifying and profound." --Rachel Kushner, The Guardian (Best Books 2021)C. He is also an acclaimed East German writer. is a wretched grump, an anguished…
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The Interim Hilbig Wolfgang
"Comic and terrifying and profound." --Rachel Kushner, The Guardian (Best Books 2021)C. He is also an acclaimed East German writer. is a wretched grump, an anguished patron of bars, brothels, and train stations.
There at least the novelty of his origins grant him easy money and minor celebrity, if also a deflating sense of complacency. Dogged by writer's block, remorse, and national guilt in the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, he leaves the monochromatic existence of the GDR for the neon excess of the West. With his visa expired and several relationships hanging in the balance, C.
travels back and forth, mentally and physically, between two Germanys, contemplating diverging visions of the world and what they mean for people like him: alienated and aimless witnesses to history.This monumental novel from one of the greatest chroniclers of