Max Weber famously described politics as "a strong, slow drilling
through hard boards with both passion and judgment." Taking this as
his inspiration, Alexander Kluge brings readers yet another
literary masterpiece. Drilling through Hard Boards is a
kaleidoscopic meditation on the tools available to those who
struggle for power. Weber's metaphorical drill certainly embodies
intelligent tenacity as a precondition for political change. But
what is a hammer in the business of politics, Kluge wonders, and
what is a subtle touch? Eventually, we learn that all questions of
politics lead to a single one: what is political in the first
place? In the book, Kluge masterfully unspools more than one
hundred vignettes, through which it becomes clear that the
political is more often than not personal. Politics are everywhere
in our everyday lives, so along with the stories of major political
figures, we also find here the small, mostly unknown ones: Elfriede
Eilers alongside Pericles, Chilean miners next to Napoleon, a
three-month-old baby beside Alexander the Great. Drilling through
Hard Boards is not just Kluge's newest fiction, it is a masterpiece
of political thought.
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