The Modern Library Classics; Author of The Journey; Translated by Peter Filkins
H. G. Adler was the author of twenty-six books of fiction, poetry,
philosophy, and history. Born in Prague in 1910, Adler was a
survivor of the Holocaust. He later settled in England and began
writing about his experience. Adler died in London in 1988.
Peter Filkins is an acclaimed translator and the recipient of a
Berlin Prize fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. He
teaches writing and literature at Bard College at Simon's Rock in
Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
“The Journey and Panorama . . . are modernist masterpieces worthy
of comparison to those of Kafka or Musil.”—The New Yorker
“Haunting . . . as remarkable for its literary experimentation as
for its historical testimony.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Panorama should have been the brilliant debut of a major German
writer. . . . It’s hard to fathom why we had to wait so long. . . .
Under any circumstances, let alone such harsh ones, his
accomplishments would be remarkable.”—The New York Times Book
Review (Editor’s Choice)
“Astonishing . . . Works such as Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life
of Ivan Denisovich, Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and H. G. Adler’s
. . . Panorama draw the strength of their narrative from direct
memory.”—Simon Schama, Financial Times
“[A] stirring novel . . . expertly and elegantly translated by
Peter Filkins.”—Los Angeles Times
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