About the Author

Georg Buchner was born in Goddelau in 1813 and died of typhus in 1837, at the age of just 23. In his short life he nonetheless managed to make a significant impact on German literature and it is widely believed that, had he lived longer, he could have achieved the stature of such German literary giants as Goethe and Schiller. More famous for his plays, including Danton's Death, Lenz is Georg Buchner's only known story.

Reviews

"A harbinger of European modernism." "New Yorker ""

"A study of schizophrenia whose style anticipates Bernhard and Beckett." "Guardian""

"A harbinger of European modernism." --"New Yorker"