The Bars of Atlantis: Selected Essays - Rilegato

Grunbein, Durs

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ISBN 10: 0374260621 ISBN 13: 9780374260620

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2010

Riassunto

A collection of essays by a German poet and essayist includes biographical pieces, thoughts on the intersection of art and science and literature, reflections on the poet's craft and explorations into the meaning of classical antiquity for the present.

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L'autore:

Durs Grünbein is the author of twelve volumes of poetry and four collections of essays. His work has been awarded many major German literary prizes, including the highest, the Georg Büchner Prize, which he won at age thirty-three. He has lived in Berlin since 1985.

Product Description:

This landmark collection of essays by one of the world's greatest living authors makes Durs Grunbein's wide-ranging and multifaceted prose available in English for the first time, and is a welcome complement to "Ashes for Breakfast" (FSG, 2005), his first book-length collection of poetry in English. Covering two decades, "The Bars of Atlantis" unfurls the entire breadth and depth of Grunbein's essayistic genius: memoiristic and autobiographical pieces that introduce Grunbein, the man and author, and tell the story of the making of a poet and thinker toward the end of a century marked by global political strife, unprecedented human suffering, long decades of totalitarian rule, and, in its final quarter, the dawn of a new, post - cold war world order; pieces that focus on Grunbein's major philosophical and aesthetic concerns, such as the intersection of art and science, literature and biology; extended reflections on the existential, cultural, political, and ethical import of the poet's craft in the contemporary world; and, finally, explorations of the meaning of classical antiquity for the present. All contribute to making this volume a true classic of critical prose.

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0374260621
• ISBN 13: 9780374260620
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 323
• Redattore: Eskin Michael