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The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II - A Novel (Hardcover, Translated from the German)
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The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II - A Novel (Hardcover, Translated from the German)
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A major literary event, the publication of the second volume of
Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes
one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature
available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The
crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned
writer best known for his play Marat/Sade, The Aesthetics of
Resistance spans the period from the late 1930s to World War II,
dramatizing antifascist resistance and the rise and fall of
proletarian political parties in Europe. Volume II, initially
published in 1978, opens with the unnamed narrator in Paris after
having retreated from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War.
From there, he moves on to Stockholm, where he works in a factory,
becomes involved with the Communist Party, and meets Bertolt
Brecht. Featuring the narrator's extended meditations on paintings,
sculpture, and literature, the novel teems with characters, almost
all of whom are based on historical figures. Throughout, the
narrator explores 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 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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