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Abish, Walter

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Abish, Walter (1931- )

US writer of Austrian-Jewish origin. His novels, short stories, and poetry experiment with language and sound. He uses an unexpressive, formalist style to investigate modern history and morality in such novels as Alphabetical Africa (1974), in which each chapter contains words all starting with the same letter, and How German Is It? (1980), an ironic guidebook that reveals the darkness and guilt behind the materialism of post-war Germany.

He grew up in Shanghai, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Europe. He moved to Israel in 1949 and to the USA in 1957, becoming a citizen in 1960.



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