"Wolfgang Hilbig is an artist of immense stature" – László Krasznahorkai, recipient of the 2015 International Man Booker Prize and author of Satantango and Seiobo There Below
"In Old Rendering Plant, Hilbig finds his way back to poetry's origins, his language penetrates time and space, penetrates the earth itself, dissolves, finds itself once more, and, in incredible beauty and sadness, brings to light almost-forgotten things." – Clemens Meyer, author of Bricks and Mortar "Evokes the luminous prose of W.G. Sebald." – The New York Times
"Out of the ugliness of history and the wasted landscape of his home, he has created stories of disconsolate beauty." – The Wall Street Journal
"[Hilbig writes as] Edgar Allan Poe could have written if he had been born in Communist East Germany." – Los Angeles Review of Books
"Hilbig's prose is vivid and poetic." – Publishers Weekly