If you took “Buddenbrooks,” combined it with “The Forsyth Saga” and added the wit and wisdom of “Leopoldstadt,” you’d have “Effingers,” a late 1940s novel recently resurrected from near-obscurity.
Books: “Effingers” by Gabriele Effinger
If you took “Buddenbrooks,” combined it with “The Forsyth Saga” and added the wit and wisdom of “Leopoldstadt,” you’d have “Effingers,” a late 1940s novel recently resurrected from near-obscurity.