Three outstanding contributions on the first translator of García Lorca to German, the great posthumous novel of Bolaño and the Rif War

Abstract

This article presents three noteworthy contributions on the first translator of García Lorca into German, the great posthumous novel of Bolaño and the Rif war. Heinrich Enrique Beck was until 1998 the only German translator of the Lorca work because he was in possession of a document in which the heirs of the copyright had appointed him as an exclusive translator. As for Bolaño’s work, Arndt Laink focuses his analysis on the reasons for the presence and extent of evil in each of the five parts that make up 2666. Finally, it proposes a comparative, cultural and political approach relevant and innovative to the most outstanding representations of the Rif War in contemporary Spanish and Moroccan literature.