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Michael Bernstein - Five Portraits, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

Five Portraits

Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing

Av Michael Bernstein

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In Five Portraits, one of the most acute critical thinkers of our time presents essays on five of the most important writers of the past hundred years: Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Robert Musil, Martin Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin. The result is a remarkable examination of a moment when these writers, caught between the dream of creating an abiding masterpiece and the reality of a brutal culture fascinated by apocalyptic catastrophe, deliberately put themselves and their work at the center of the storm. Written in elegant and jargon-free prose, Michael Andre Bernstein's essays create a vivid image of an epoch whose aspirations and torments continues to shape the world we inhabit today.
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"This slim volume of deftly written essays is sure to knock many a full-length study of any of the five German writers under discussion off the shelf." - Library Journal"It is always welcome to have a new book that reaches out beyond the academic field of German studies, and encourages a wider readership to engage with the work of German-language writers. . . . These five essays (written originally for the New Republic) represent an admirable attempt to engage with the work of complex thinkers." - Times Literary Supplement"Five Portraits represents the work of one of our leading critics of modern literature writing at the peak of his powers. What unites these essays is above all Bernstein's shrewd and eminently sensible perceptions of the moral dangers in a propensity to the cultivation of dramatic extremes in the modern German imagination." - Robert Alter, University of California, Berkeley

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