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Robert Macfarlane: Vanishing Victorians, 18 December 2003
The Discovery of Slowness
by Sten Nadolny, translated by Ralph Freedman.
Canongate, 311 pp., £10.99, September 2003,1 84195 403 9 Show More
by Sten Nadolny, translated by Ralph Freedman.
Canongate, 311 pp., £10.99, September 2003,
“... to a minimum. His blandness makes him an amenably malleable subject for a novelist, and Sten Nadolny has taken full advantage of this licence. Most important, he has endowed his John Franklin with a defining character trait for which there is no historical evidence: Langsamkeit (‘slowness’, or ‘calmness’). Slowness influences not only ... ”
