Granta 42: Krauts!

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #42

by Bill Buford (Editor)

When foreigners' hostels were being burned in Rostock by young neo-Nazi thugs, who were the thousands of middle-aged, middle class Germans standing by, shouting encouragement? Can the survey which suggests one in five Germans would consider voting for extreme right-wing parties be believed? Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall Granta 42 looks into the ugly face of nationalism and asks what has happened to our hopes for a new world order.

Genres: Germany, Fiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism".

Reviews

[Kiarash · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've never read any magazine in my life that had so much influence on me and altered my way of comprehension and thinking as this issue of Granta.
Granata Magazines are always good suggestions, but this one is very especial.
I was just looking through the shelves of my previous university library: Högskolan i Borås, that I suddenly found this issue.
Reading (and re-reading) the articles of this issue, was my favourite habit during the breaks or evenings after classes.
P.S. thanks to this issue, I've gotten familiar with the Dubravka Ugrešić's works for the first time.

[Karen-Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Essays about Germany after reunification. A lot of information I didn't know, not sure the world knows it either, that is disturbing. Yes, this was published in 1992 but it resonates with today's lean to the right and the xenophobia exhibited the world over and the coming world climate change crisis which will exacerbate the immigration/migration problem. Fascinating, enlightening and depressing. Avoiding daily news to escape the horror south of the border and praying for release back into sanity in 2020, this book shows that what is happening world wide is not going to stop. I am currently praying that there is no such thing as reincarnation...I do not want to come back to see what is coming. In some ways, I am beginning to feel humanity is not worth saving...so much awfulness and the awfulness is protected by people who are supposed to be the good guys. History does repeat itself...the signposts say it is 1933 all over again and this book is full of reminders of 1933 and its aftermath.