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Vladimir Volkoff
Die Handgrenate
Karolinger Verlag, 2021
In 2021 a small Austrian publishing house, the Karolinger Verlag, published a German translation of Vladimir Volkoff’s short story La Grenade (The Hand Grenade), neither the publisher nor the writer being very well known in the German speaking world. That this particular publisher chose to publish one of Volkoff’s works is no coincidence. The German Wikipedia page on the Karolinger Verlag quotes from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the Karolinger Verlag “rejects the spirit of the times”, presumably the newspaper’s euphemism for what is considered reactionary and/or right-wing. (more…)
