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The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I - A Novel (Paperback, Translated from the German)
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The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I - A Novel (Paperback, Translated from the German)
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A major literary event, the publication of this masterly
translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century
German literature available to English-speaking readers for the
first time. The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is
the crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally
renowned dramatist best known for his play Marat/Sade. The first
volume, presented here, was initially published in Germany in 1975;
the third and final volume appeared in 1981, just six months before
Weiss's death. Spanning the period from the late 1930s to World War
II, this historical novel dramatizes antifascist resistance and the
rise and fall of proletarian political parties in Europe. Living in
Berlin in 1937, the unnamed narrator and his peers-sixteen- and
seventeen-year-old working-class students-seek ways to express
their hatred for the Nazi regime. They meet in museums and
galleries, and in their discussions they explore the affinity
between political resistance and art, the connection at the heart
of Weiss's novel. Weiss suggests that meaning lies in embracing
resistance, no matter how intense the oppression, and that we must
look to art for new models of political action and social
understanding. The novel includes extended meditations on
paintings, sculpture, and literature. Moving from the Berlin
underground to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War and on to
other parts of Europe, the story teems with characters, almost all
of whom are based on historical figures. The Aesthetics of
Resistance is one of the truly great works of postwar German
literature and an essential resource for understanding
twentieth-century German history.
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