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This special issue marks the recent English translation of the second volume of Peter Weiss's The Aesthetics of Resistance, also published by Duke University Press, with new, future-oriented readings of the novel. While many of the novel's images-migrants adrift on a surveilled and fortified Mediterranean and the rise of anti-democratic, antisemitic, and racist authoritarian movements, among others-echo contemporary issues and events, the contributors present the novel as a complex text at the intersection of art, literary, and political histories with special utility for grasping the present moment. Topics include the relationship between form and formlessness in the novel, its implications for the interpretation of art, how political encounters inform the engagement of political subjects, and Weiss's thematization of Jewish identity and left antisemitism. The issue also includes a new translation of a 1966 public exchange between Peter Weiss and Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Contributors. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Kai Evers, Julia Hell, Seth Howes, Stefan Jonsson, Kaisa Kaakinen, Richard Langston, Matthew D. Miller, Alex Potts, Caroline Rupprecht, Peter Weiss
"The New Trial" is Peter Weiss's final drama, completed only months
before his death in 1982 and never before published in
English.""One of Europe's most important twentieth century
playwrights--often considered as influential as Brecht and
Beckett--Weiss is best known to American audiences as the author of
the Broadway play "Marat/Sade "and the three-volume novel "The
Aesthetics of Resistance, " which has elicited comparison with
Joyce's "Ulysses "and Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of
Solitude. "Initially influenced by Franz Kafka and later by the
American Henry Miller, Weiss worked to expose the hypocrisy, the
deception, and the nature of aggression in the contemporary world.
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