Isbn: 9780857424327 - at the burning abyss: experiencing the georg trakl poem (17 risultati)

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Hardback. Condizione: New. At the Burning Abyss is Franz Fuhmann's magnum opus 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, Fuhmann 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.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Franz Fuehmanns 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, Fuehmann probes his own susceptibility to ideologys seductionsNazism, then socialismand examines their antidote, the goad of Trakls enigmatic verses. He confronts Trakls 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 232 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: New. Translator(s): Cole, Isabel Fargo. Series: SB-The German List. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. . . 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. . . . .

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. Translator(s): Cole, Isabel Fargo. Series: SB-The German List. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. . . 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. Seagull Books, 2017. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Black boards with gilt spine lettering. Black endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Octavo, 305 pages. Includes translator's notes. A deeply personal and intellectual engagement with the poetry of Georg Trakl by East German writer Franz Fühmann, written as a series of reflective essays. Translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole.…

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Franz Fuehmanns 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, Fuehmann probes his own susceptibility to ideologys seductionsNazism, then socialismand examines their antidote, the goad of Trakls enigmatic verses. He confronts Trakls 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. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. At the Burning Abyss is Franz Fuhmann's magnum opus 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, Fuhmann 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.…