Panorama is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Translation and introduction copyright © 2011 by Peter Filkins
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This work, excluding the afterword, was originally published in Germany as Panorama by Walter-Verlag in 1968 and by Paul Zsolnay Verlag in 2010. Copyright © 2010 by Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna. This edition published by arrangement with Paul Zsolnay Verlag.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Zephyr Press for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Bohemia Lies by the Sea” from Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, copyright © 2000 by Piper Verlag GmbH, Munchen. English translation copyright © 2006 by Peter Filkins. Reprinted by permission of Zephyr Press, www.zephyrpress.org.
The afterword by Peter Demetz was originally published, in the German language, in Panorama by H. G. Adler by Piper Verlag in 1988 and is reprinted here, in translation, by permission of the author. Copyright © 1988 by Peter Demetz.
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Adler, H. G.
[Panorama. English]
Panorama : a novel / H.G. Adler ; translated from German by Peter Filkins.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-79446-8
1. Jews—Czech Republic—Fiction. 2. Prague (Czech Republic)—Fiction. 3. Bohemia (Czech Republic)—Fiction. 4. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)—Czech Republic—Fiction. I. Filkins, Peter. II. Title.
PT2601.D614P313 2010
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