Translation for "inselhaft" to english
Inselhaft
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Niemand wußte etwas Genaueres über diese drei. Sie waren die Illustration eines Grenzfalls der inselhaften Natur der Beziehungen anderer Leute.
No one knew anything for certain about the three of them, they were a limit-case illustration of the insular nature of other people’s relationships;
Pelletiers Arbeit konzentrierte sich auf das Inselhafte, auf den Bruch mit der deutschen, nicht jedoch der europäischen Tradition, was sämtliche Bücher Archimboldis auszuzeichnen schien. Espinozas Arbeit, eine der vergnüglichsten, die der Spanier je schrieb, behandelte das Geheimnis, das die Person Archimboldis umgab, über den möglicherweise niemand, nicht einmal sein Verleger, Genaueres wusste: Biographische Angaben gab es nur wenige (deutscher Schriftsteller, geboren 1920 in Preußen), sein Wohnort war geheim, obwohl sein Verleger bei einer Gelegenheit einem Journalisten vom Spiegel gegenüber versehentlich verriet, dass ihn eins der Manuskripte aus Sizilien erreicht habe.
Pelletier's paper focused on insularity, on the rupture that seemed to separate the whole of Archimboldi's oeuvre from the German tradition, though not from a larger European tradition. Espinoza's paper, one of the most engaging he ever wrote, revolved around the mystery veiling the figure of Archimboldi, about whom virtually no one, not even his publisher, knew anything: his books appeared with no author photograph on the flaps or back cover; his biographical data was minimal (German writer born in Prussia in 1920); his place of residence was a mystery, although at some point his publisher let slip in front of a Spiegel reporter that one of his manuscripts had arrived from Sicily; none of his surviving fellow writers had ever seen him;
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