From The Diary of a Tin Snail

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Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke first published 1972 This translation first published in the U.S.A. 1973 Published in Great Britain by Martin Secker & Warburg 1973 Published in Penguin Books 1976

Copyright © Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, 1972 Translation copyright © Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973

Extracts from this book originally appeared in The American Scholar and Fiction

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