What do you want to know that for?

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Alice Munro , Nobel Prize in Literature 2013

What do you want to know that for? Eleven stories (originally The View from Castle Rock , 2006) is a collection of short stories by the Canadian author Alice Munro. They are internally related. The stories tell of the author's childhood and adolescence in Canada and draw the link back to her Scottish ancestors (a distant relative is the poet James Hogg ).

In 2008, S. Fischer in Frankfurt am Main published a German translation by Heidi Zerning. In November 2008 the collection was number 1 on the SWR best list . This edition has a length of 380 pages.

Works included

  • Foreword p. 9
  • First part • Without advantages (Part One / No Advantages)
    • No Advantages, p. 15
    • The view from the castle rock (The View from Castle Rock), p 40
    • Illinois (Illinois), p. 104
    • The Wilds of Morris Township, p. 128
    • Working for a Living, p. 145
  • Second part • At home (Part Two / Home)
    • Fathers, p. 195
    • Lying Under the Apple Tree, p. 221
    • Temporary job (hired girl), p. 253
    • Die Schiene (The Ticket), p. 283
    • Daheim (Home), p. 314
    • What do you want to know that for? (What Do You Want to Know For?), P. 347
  • Afterword (Epilogue)
    • Messages (Messenger), p. 375

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Peter Englund, the spokesman of the Swedish Academy, after the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Alice Munro on October 11, 2013, in English, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/ announcement.html
Works by Alice Munro


Volumes
(chronological)

Dance of the blessed spirits (1968, German 2010) • Small prospects (1971, German 1983) • What I've always wanted to tell you (1974, German 2012) • The beggar girl. Stories by Flo and Rose (1978, German 1981) • The moons of Jupiter (1982, German 1986) • The moon over the ice rink (1986, German 1989) • Do you think it was love? (1990, German 1991) • Open Secrets (1994, German 1996) • The Love of a Woman (1998, German 2000) • Heaven and Hell (2001, German 2004) • Tricks (2004, German 2006) • What do you want to know that for? (2006, German 2008) • Too much luck (2009, German 2011) • Liebes Leben (2012, German 2013)

Individual works
selection (alphabetical)

Farewell to Maverly • Age of Faith • Amundsen • Runaways • Carried Away • Corrie • Cortes Island • Home • The Eye • The Office • The Bear Climbed Over the Mountain • The Wenlock Ridge • The Albanian Virgin • Differently • The Lives of Girls and women • The Valley of Ottawa • The Peace of Utrecht • The Walker Brothers cowboy • The view from the castle rock • The moons of Jupiter • A woman's love • Dimensions • An outpost in the wilderness • Only the reapers • Tales • Free radicals • Girlfriend from my youth • He hates me, likes me, loves me, wedding • homestead • reach Japan • Jakarta • boys and girls • gravel • passion • love life • some women • Meneseteung • Miles City, Montana • with lake view • night • Oh, What Avails • Oranges and Apples • Pictures of the Ice • Posts and Planks • Queenie • Simon's Luck • Voices • Butterfly Day • The Children's Stay • The Progress of Love • The Turkey Season • Deep Holes • Van dalen • What I always wanted to tell you • What will stay in your memory • White waste • Why do you want to know that? • Train

The titles of the works are given in English if the work is not available in German or the title has not yet been found.