Robert Lemon earned his BA at the University of Oxford and his MA and PhD at Harvard. He joined the OU faculty in 2005. His research focuses on turn-of the-century Austrian literature and culture, and his current project addresses anthropological themes in the works of Franz Kafka.
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Life for Jenny Erpenbeck’s characters is a vector, a movement through time and space, in which both temporal and spatial circumstances impinge on the individual’s…