H. G. Adler was the author of twenty-six books of fiction, poetry,
philosophy, and history. A survivor of Theresienstadt and
Auschwitz, Adler later settled in England and began writing novels
about his experience. Having worked as a freelance writer and
scholar throughout his life, Adler died in London in 1988.
Peter Filkins is an acclaimed translator and poet and the recipient
of a Berlin Prize fellowship in 2005 from the American Academy in
Berlin, among other honors. He teaches writing and literature at
Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts,
and translation at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Praise for The Wall
“[A] majestic novel . . . Adler’s prose is tidal, surge after
narrative surge rushing forward and then enigmatically receding,
the moment displaced by memory, and memory by introspective
soliloquy.”—Cynthia Ozick, The New York Times Book Review
“A towering meditation on the self and spirit . . . The
writing is sonorous and so entirely devastating that the reader is
compelled to pore over every word.”—Publishers Weekly (starred
review)
“Masterful and utterly unique.”—The Jerusalem Post
“Haunting and utterly heart-wrenching . . . a literary
masterpiece.”—Historical Novels Review
“An epic novel . . . an unforgettable portrait.”—The Jewish
Week
“[A] pensive portrait of a man struggling to find a place in the
world after enduring transformative calamity . . . an eloquent
record of suffering—and perhaps of redemption as well.”—Kirkus
Reviews
Praise for H. G. Adler’s novels The Journey and Panorama,
translated by Peter Filkins
“The Journey and Panorama . . . are modernist masterpieces worthy
of comparison to those of Kafka or Musil.”—The New Yorker
The Journey
“The novel’s streaming consciousness and verbal play invite
comparison with Joyce, the individual-dwarfing scale of law and
prohibition brings Kafka to mind, and there is something in the
hypnotic pulse of the prose that is reminiscent of Gertrude
Stein.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A tribute to the survival of art and a poignant teaching in the
art of survival . . . I tend to shy away from Holocaust fiction,
but this book helps redeem an all-but-impossible genre.”—Harold
Bloom
Panorama
“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. . . . Under any circumstances, let alone such harsh ones,
[Adler’s] accomplishments would be remarkable.”—The New York Times
Book Review
“[A] stirring novel . . . expertly and elegantly translated by
Peter Filkins.”—Los Angeles Times
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