At the Burning Abyss - Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem (Hardcover)

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: 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.

General

Imprint:	Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The German List
Release date:	October 2017
Authors:	Franz Fuhmann
Translators:	Isabel Fargo Cole
Dimensions:	138 x 211 x 3mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-85742-432-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN:	0-85742-432-7
Barcode:	9780857424327

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