The Hour That Breaks is the first biography of Gottfried Benn to
appear in English. The author of this study charts in impressive
detail the complex paths of Benn's life, through the demands of his
medical practice and military involvement in two world wars, his
brief political advocacy of Hitler and Nazism in 1933, to his final
"comeback" in post Second World War Germany. The author also
engages with Benn's extensive body of poetry which, inventive,
challenging and formally wrought, was the product of mind that was
both radical and conservative. The same propensity to invention and
transformation also informed Benn's personal and professional life,
giving rise to a practice of role-playing and dissimulation that
the poet termed a "double life". As Travers shows in this
well-written and informative biography, this was a strategy of
survival of which Benn, ultimately, was as much the victim as the
master. This biography also offers fresh translations of many of
Benn's poems, a number of which appear here in English for the
first time.
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