Seeing Further

Esther Kinsky grew up by the river Rhine and lived in London for twelve years. She is the author of six volumes of poetry, five novels (Summer Resort, Banatsko, River, Grove, Rombo), numerous essays on language, poetry and translation and three children’s books. She has translated many notable English (John Clare, Henry David Thoreau, Iain Sinclair) and Polish (Joanna Bator, Miron Białoszewski, Magdalena Tulli) authors into German. Both River and Grove won numerous literary prizes in Germany. Seeing Further is her fourth book published by Fitzcarraldo Editions.Caroline Schmidt was born in Princeton. She translated Esther Kinsky’s novels Rombo and Grove, which was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and has translated poetry by Friederike Mayröcker, and art historical essays, museum catalogues and exhibition texts for Albertina in Vienna and Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, among others. She lives in Berlin.

‘The narrator’s own reminiscences of the last century, “the cinema century,” unfurl a vast cultural memory of moviegoing as a lost form of community, even shelter-taking…. The cinema produces a kind of magic, which we might call the magic of the frame. And Seeing Further, in line after gorgeously elaborated line, tracks the struggle to produce that magic for oneself.’ — Ben Libman, New York Times