Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Flauberts Papagei | Flaubert’s Parrot. Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 1987. Pp. 277 [278] + [2]. 18.5 x 11.2 cm. Translated by Michael Walter. ISBN: 3251001043. (German).
Cover illustration by Volker Kriegel.
Tag: German
Poesie unterwegs, nichts wird so heiß gegessen … (Nordhessischer VerkehrsVerbund, 2016; German)
Notes on this edition: Poesie unterwegs, nichts wird so heiß gegessen … (Nordhessischer VerkehrsVerbund, 2016. (German).
Ephemeral booklet containing Julian Barnes’s essay “A Late-Onset Cook.” The essay is translated by Gertraude Krueger as “Ein kochender Spätzünder” and published on pages 42-49.
Vom Ende einer Geschichte | The Sense of an Ending (btb, 2013; German)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Vom Ende einer Geschichte | The Sense of an Ending. btb, 2013. Pp. 181 [182] + [10]. 18.7 x 11.8 cm. Translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 9783442745470. (German).
Copyright page lists the specific date of publication as “Juli 2013”. Spine label states this is btb “774547”.
In 2017, btb issued a reprint of this edition. The reprint features the same ISBN, pagination, and btb number of “774547”, but the layout of the title page and copyright page are changed and there are minor alterations to the cover, as shown below.
Metroland (Haffmans Verlag, 1989; German; Paperback)
Notes on this edition: Metroland. Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 1989. Pp. 231 [232] + [8]. 18 x 10.8 cm. Translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 3251011286
Cover art by Volker Kriegel. Marked as “Haffmans-Taschenbuch 128”.
The copy pictured above has a bookseller’s inventory/price sticker on the lower back cover that was not present at the time of publication.
The copy below is the second printing, as indicated by the publisher’s slip inserted into the inside cover. The publisher’s slip is unique to this copy, as it is Julian Barnes’s personal copy.
Vor die Hunde gehen | Going to the Dogs (Haffmans Verlag, 1989; German)
Notes on this edition: Dan Kavanagh. Vor die Hunde gehen | Going to the Dogs. Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 1989. Pp. 268 [269] + [3]. 18 x 10.8 cm. Translated by Willi Winkler. ISBN: 3251010360. (German).
Grobes Foul | Putting the Boot In (Ullstein Krimi, 1987; German)
Notes on this edition: Dan Kavanagh. Grobes Foul | Putting the Boot In. Frankfurt: Ullstein Krimi, 1987. Pp. 156 [157] + [3]. 17.8 x 11.7 cm. Translated by Verena Schröder. ISBN: 3-548-10483-5 (German).
Abblocken | Putting the Boot In (Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1989; German)
Notes on this edition: Dan Kavanagh. Abblocken | Putting the Boot In. München: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1989. Pp. 233 [234] + [6]. 17.9 x 10.8 cm. Translated by Verena Schröder. ISBN: 3453072995. (German).
Eine Geschichte der Welt in 10½ Kapiteln | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (Wilhelm Heyne, 1990; German)
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Eine Geschichte der Welt in 10½ Kapiteln | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. München: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1990. Pp. 363 [365] + [1]. 18.6 x 12.5 cm. Translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 3453084004. (German).
Paperback edition following the hardback published in 1990 by Haffmans Verlag.
Auf einen Kaffee mit Aristoteles by Jonathan Barnes (Deutscher Taschenbuch, 2010; German)
Notes on this edition: Barnes, Jonathan. Auf einen Kaffee mit Aristoteles. (Deutscher Taschenbuch, 2010). Translated by Mara-Daria Cojocaru. 124 p. 14 cm. ISBN: 9783423345927. Foreword by Julian Barnes (pp. 7-10).
The German edition of Jonathan Barnes’s fictional conversation with Aristotle includes a translation of Julian Barnes’s foreword included in the English edition.
Als sie mich noch nicht kannte | Before She Met Me (Haffmans Verlag, 1988; German)
Notes on this edition: Als sie mich noch nicht kannte | Before She Met Me. Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 1988. Pp. 247 [248]. 18.4 x 11.1 cm. Translated by Michael Walter. (German).
The dust jacket of the German translation of Barnes’s second novel Before She Met Me features an illustration by Volker Kriegel. Also in 1988, Bloomsbury published Kriegel’s book The Truth about Dogs, a collection of Kriegel’s humorous drawings of dogs. Julian Barnes wrote an introduction for the book.