| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | German term or phrase: | literarischer Alleingänger | | English translation: | a literary maverick | | Entered by: |  Helen Shiner |
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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | | German term or phrase: literarischer Alleingänger | Wolfgang Sreter - Leben and Werk eines literarischen Alleingangers".
Thanks in advance for any neat suggestions. |
| | | a literary maverick | Explanation:
Trying to find something that is not pejorative.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/...
35 years as a literary maverick: Clarence Major is revered and respected for his literary achievements. He's just not as widely known as he should be.
Never really a bold faced name even in African AmericanAfrican American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race.
..... Click the link for more information. letters, the literary achievements of Clarence Major are nonetheless monumental: He produced high-quality fiction and poetry during the most critical years of the latter part of the last century without receiving the kind of public acclaim his work so deserved. That may change, however, with his new novel, One Flesh (November 2003), recently released from Kensington Books This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. . Accessible in a way that many of his early modernist novels never were, this story is about John Canoe, a solitary painter, living in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's Soho district. He finds his comfortable loneliness turned upside down when a Chinese AmericanChinese Americans (Chinese language: 美籍華人 or 華裔美國人) are Americans of Chinese descent. Chinese Americans constitute one group of Overseas Chinese and are a subgroup of Asian Americans.
..... Click the link for more information. woman enters his world and challenges him to embrace life. The narrative is a landmark effort from one of the most highly versatile creative minds in America.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/35 years as a literary maveric...
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http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ia5tHVtQPn8C&pg=PA250&lpg...
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Thanks for the points, Dariusz |
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| Grading comment Thanks a lot, Helen.
I extend my thanks to Sonja and Annett.
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2 hrs confidence: | literary outsider
Explanation:
Another suggestion which might work, depending on context. Admittedly, I don't know anything about the writer in question, or his work.
‘Haruki Murakami calls himself a literary outsider. "I don't deal with the Japanese literary circle or society at all. I live totally separate from them and still rebel against that world."’
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/14/books/14mura.html?pagewant...
‘Literary outsider triumphs
ABOUT a decade ago, when talking to a roomful of creative-writing students at the University of Houston, Dagoberto Gilb related his experience as a literary outsider, as someone outside the writerly and academic loop. For 16 years Gilb had been a card-carrying union carpenter. While the privileged among the class -- and that was most of them -- had been networking, schmoozing, spending summers in Venice, Gilb had been swinging a hammer by day and writing by night.’
http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/external_news/2003...
‘Conrad, the literary outsider ignored by his adopted country
One of the most influential and widely read writers of the Victorian age, Joseph Conrad inspired authors from William Golding to Graham Greene and tackled topics such as immigration, terrorism and colonialism with an unerring prescience that foretold the dilemmas of the present.
Yet today, the 150th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Konrad Korzeniowski will pass largely unnoticed outside the tightly knit academic community which keeps the writer's spirit alive.’
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-11369757.html
‘Literary outsider dies after prolific life
ANTHONY BURGESS has died in a London hospital after a long illness, it was announced yesterday, writes Kevin Jackson.’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/literary-outsider-dies-aft...
‘Higgins, Rita An
Gutsy, anarchic poet and dramatist who has been a literary outsider writing from inside Irish society.’
http://dir.yahoo.com/arts/humanities/literature/authors/?d=a...
| Annett Kottek
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Native speaker of:  German
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10 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +6 | | literarisch alleinganger a literary maverick
Explanation:
Trying to find something that is not pejorative.
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Note added at 14 mins (2009-09-24 16:10:25 GMT)
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/...
35 years as a literary maverick: Clarence Major is revered and respected for his literary achievements. He's just not as widely known as he should be.
Never really a bold faced name even in African AmericanAfrican American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race.
..... Click the link for more information. letters, the literary achievements of Clarence Major are nonetheless monumental: He produced high-quality fiction and poetry during the most critical years of the latter part of the last century without receiving the kind of public acclaim his work so deserved. That may change, however, with his new novel, One Flesh (November 2003), recently released from Kensington Books This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. . Accessible in a way that many of his early modernist novels never were, this story is about John Canoe, a solitary painter, living in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's Soho district. He finds his comfortable loneliness turned upside down when a Chinese AmericanChinese Americans (Chinese language: 美籍華人 or 華裔美國人) are Americans of Chinese descent. Chinese Americans constitute one group of Overseas Chinese and are a subgroup of Asian Americans.
..... Click the link for more information. woman enters his world and challenges him to embrace life. The narrative is a landmark effort from one of the most highly versatile creative minds in America.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/35 years as a literary maveric...
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Note added at 22 mins (2009-09-24 16:18:10 GMT)
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http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ia5tHVtQPn8C&pg=PA250&lpg...
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Note added at 3 days3 hrs (2009-09-27 19:41:20 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks for the points, Dariusz
| Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:55
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 52
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| | Grading comment Thanks a lot, Helen.
I extend my thanks to Sonja and Annett. |
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