The world of book publishing is currently undergoing a major paradigm shift, but this was already fully under way in the 1990s. In the German novel Abstieg vom Zauberberg, published in 1997 by an anonymous author under the pseudonym Jens Walther, we are given an excellent insider view of the concrete situation within literary publishing houses and how they operate behind the scene and in public to secure the best possible titles and to fend off manuscripts that appear to be trivial literature. The author proves to be highly educated in the history of German and western literature at large and also demonstrates great expertise regarding book fairs, book reviews, and book prizes, framing all this by a somewhat twisted love story involving a young author, Anna Becker, and two men, first the young Johannes Rieger, then his father Helmut Rieger, both representing the fictional publishing house Engsfeld.

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Jens Walther 的 Abstieg vom Zauberberg (1997)：对后现代世界出版界的文学反思

图书出版界目前正在经历一场重大的范式转变，但这在 1990 年代已经全面展开。在德国小说 Abstieg vom Zauberberg 于 1997 年由一位匿名作者以化名 Jens Walther 出版，我们对文学出版社内部的具体情况以及它们如何在幕后和公共场合运作以确保最佳状态获得了出色的内幕见解可能的标题，并抵御看似微不足道的文学手稿。事实证明，作者在德国和西方文学史上受过高等教育，并且在书展、书评和书奖方面也表现出出色的专业知识，通过一个涉及年轻作家安娜贝克尔的有点扭曲的爱情故事来构建这一切，和两个人，首先是年轻的约翰内斯·里格，然后是他的父亲赫尔穆特·里格，