Ebook {Epub PDF} Old Rendering Plant by Wolfgang Hilbig

Old Rendering Plant. by Wolfgang Hilbig. Translated by Isabel Fargo Cole. Two Lines Press. Review by S.D. Stewart. No one knew well enough what was allowed to be known, and no one knew how to know well enough. Stripped of its context, the quote above could describe my own reading experience with this brief, compressed novel by Wolfgang www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. In Old Rendering Plant Wolfgang Hilbig turns his febrile, hypnotic prose to the intersection of identity, language, and history’s darkest chapters, immersing readers in the odors and oozings of a butchery that has for years dumped biological waste into a river. It starts when a young boy becomes obsessed with an empty and decayed coal plant, coming to believe that it is tied to mysterious disappearances /5(5).  · Old Rendering Plant, Wolfgang Hilbig’s allegorical novel about East Germany and the Stasi, begins benignly with its nameless narrator recalling the times as a boy when he would explore the forest at the edge of his small www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins.

Old Rendering Plant, so adeptly translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole, who has a special affection and strong sensitivity for Wolfgang Hilbig's prose, is a book that readily lends itself to multiple readings. At this point, having read it many times, I can pick it up and slip into it midstream and instantly feel the same magic I. Old Rendering Plant. By Wolfgang Hilbig. New Price: $ Used Price: $ Mentioned in: Prizes. National Translation Award Longlist Celebrates Translated Works. Carolyn Quimby - | 1. The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced the Poetry and Prose longlists for the National Translation Awards (NTA. Old Rendering Plant. by Wolfgang Hilbig. Translated by Isabel Fargo Cole. Two Lines Press. Review by S.D. Stewart. No one knew well enough what was allowed to be known, and no one knew how to know well enough. Stripped of its context, the quote above could describe my own reading experience with this brief, compressed novel by Wolfgang Hilbig.

Author: Wolfgang Hilbig. Translator: Isabel Fargo Cole. San Francisco. Two Lines Press. pages. The setting of Old Rendering Plant is the German Democratic Republic in which Wolfgang Hilbig grew up. In a veritable perversion of the conventional German Entwicklungsroman model, Hilbig has his first-person narrator envision his “apotheosis” in a job at the rendering plant, which turns dead and dying animals into soap. Old Rendering Plant, Wolfgang Hilbig’s allegorical novel about East Germany and the Stasi, begins benignly with its nameless narrator recalling the times as a boy when he would explore the forest at the edge of his small town. Short, mesmerizing, and densely woven with winding strands of longing and loss, Wolfgang Hilbig’s Old Rendering Plant is essentially a literary impossible space, opening up a hypnotic, multilayered stream of consciousness narrative that extends far beyond the confines of its pages. Set in the postwar landscape of the GDR, this novella is a meditation on the struggle to assert individuality in an environment that rewards conformity.