| At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem Contributor(s): Fühmann, Franz (Author), Cole, Isabel Fargo (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0857424327 ISBN-13: 9780857424327 Publisher: Seagull Books OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Collections | European - German - Poetry | European - German |
| Dewey: 831.912 |
| LCCN: 2017347393 |
| Series: German List |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.3" W x 8.1" (1.00 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At the Burning Abyss is Franz F hmann'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, F hmann 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: in victories and triumphs as in distress and defeat, in temptation and obsession, in splendor and in ordure." In 1982, the German edition of At the Burning Abyss won the West German Scholl Siblings Prize, celebrating its "courage to resist inhumanity." At a time of political extremism and polarization, has lost none of its urgency. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fuhmann, Franz: - Franz Fühmann (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. |