Franz Fühmann

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At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl PoemPaperback, 5 August 2022

At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem
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Part of Series
The Seagull Library of German Literature
Print Length
310 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Seagull Books
Date Published
5 Aug 2022
ISBN-10
1803090413
ISBN-13
9781803090412

Description

Franz Fühmann's magnum opus.

At the Burning Abyss is a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry.

Picking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off, Fühmann probes his own susceptibility to ideology's seductions--Nazism, then socialism--and examines their antidote, the goad of Trakl's enigmatic verses. He confronts Trakl's "unlivable life," as his poetry transcends the panaceas of black-and-white ideology, ultimately bringing a painful, necessary understanding of "the whole human being: in victories and triumphs as in distress and defeat, in temptation and obsession, in splendor and in ordure."

In 1982, the German edition of At the Burning Abyss won the West German Scholl Siblings Prize, celebrating its "courage to resist inhumanity." At a time of political extremism and polarization, has lost none of its urgency.

Product Details

Author:
Franz Fühmann
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
5 August 2022
Dimensions:
20.4 x 13 x 1.63 cm
Genre:
Germany
ISBN-10:
1803090413
ISBN-13:
9781803090412
Language:
English
Pages:
310
Publisher:
Weight:
335.66 gm

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