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Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time (Paperback)
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Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time (Paperback)
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A biography of composer Jacques Offenbach that is also a social and
cultural history of Second Empire Paris. Siegfried Kracauer's
biography of the composer Jacques Offenbach is a remarkable work of
social and cultural history. First published in German in 1937 and
in English translation in 1938, the book uses the life and work of
Offenbach as a focal point for a broad and penetrating portrayal of
Second Empire Paris. Offenbach's immensely popular operettas have
long been seen as part of the larger historical amnesia and
escapism that pervaded Paris in the aftermath of 1848. But Kracauer
insists that Offenbach's productions must be understood as more
than glittering distractions. The fantasy realms of such operettas
as La Belle Helene were as one with the unreality of Napoleon III's
imperial masquerade, but they also made a mockery of the pomp and
pretense surrounding the apparatuses of power. At the same time,
Offenbach's dreamworlds were embedded with a layer of utopian
content that can be seen as an indictment of the fraudulence and
corruption of the times. This edition includes Kracauer's preface
to the original German edition as well as a critical foreword by
Gertrud Koch.
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