A history of clouds
99 meditations ; [The German List]
Autor*in: Enzensberger, Hans Magnus
Reihe: The German List
Jahr: 2010
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 149 S.
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- In these 99 meditations, poet and novelist Hans Magnus Enzensberger celebrates the tenacity of the normal and routine in everyday life, where the survival of the objects we use without thinking - a pair of scissors, perhaps - is both a small, human victory and a quiet reminder of our own ephemeral nature. He sets his quotidian reflections against a broad historic and political backdrop - the cold war and its accompanying atomic threat, the German student revolt, would-be socialism in Cuba, China, and Africa, and World War II as experienced by the youthful poet. Enzensberger's poems are conversational, skeptical, and serene; they culminate in the extended set of observations which gives the collection its title. Clouds, alien and yet symbols of human life, are for Enzensberger at once a central metaphor of the Western poetic tradition and 'the most fleeting of all masterpieces.' 'Cloud archaeology,' writes Enzensberger, is 'a science for an
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger, often considered Germany's most important living poet, is also the editor of the book series Die Andere Bibliothek and the founder of the monthly TransAtlantik. His books include Lighter Than Air: Moral Poems and Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia.
Titelinformationen
Titel: A history of clouds
Reihe: The German List
Autor*in: Enzensberger, Hans Magnus
Übersetzer*in: Chalmers, Martin ; Kinsky, Esther
Verlag: Seagull Books
ISBN: 9780857422811
Kategorie: Belletristik & Unterhaltung, Lyrik, Gesellschaft & Politik
Dateigröße: 723 KB
Format: PDF
Max. Ausleihdauer: 14 Tage
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