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At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem
Franz Fuhmann
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Hardback. Translator(s): Cole, Isabel Fargo. Series: SB-The German List. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
At the Burning Abyss is Franz Fuhmann's magnum opus a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry. Picking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off, Fuhmann probes his own susceptibility to ideology's seductions Nazism, then socialism and examines their antidote, the goad of Trakl's enigmatic verses. He confronts Trakl's unlivable life, as his poetry transcends the panaceas of black-and-white ideology, ultimately bringing a painful, necessary understanding of the whole human being: ... Read more
At the Burning Abyss is Franz Fuhmann's magnum opus a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry. Picking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off, Fuhmann probes his own susceptibility to ideology's seductions Nazism, then socialism and examines their antidote, the goad of Trakl's enigmatic verses. He confronts Trakl's unlivable life, as his poetry transcends the panaceas of black-and-white ideology, ultimately bringing a painful, necessary understanding of the whole human being: ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
SB-The German List
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857424327
SKU
V9780857424327
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About Franz Fuhmann
Franz Fuhmann (1922 84) is one of modern Germany's most fascinating literary figures, and the author of dozens of novels, short stories, essays, poems, ballets, and children's books. Isabel Fargo Cole is a US-born, Berlin-based writer and translator.
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