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At the Burning Abyss - Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem (Paperback)
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At the Burning Abyss - Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem (Paperback)
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Franz Fuhmann's magnum opus. At the Burning Abyss is 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: 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.
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