Arno Schmidt

Arno Schmidt was a novelist, translator, and critic and was considered one of the preeminent Modernists of twentieth-century German literature. He was the author of more than twenty books and story collections, but made his living primarily as a translator of literature from English. Published in 1970, Bottom’s Dream (Zettels Traum) is considered his masterpiece: a more than 1,000-page novel focused on the mind and works of Edgar Allen Poe.