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Franz Fühmann - Beloved of the Dawn, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Beloved of the Dawn

Av Franz Fühmann

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Four classical Greek myths retold with unexpected twists by an East German dissident. Franz Fühmann’s subversive retellings of four Greek legends were first published in East Germany in 1980. In them, Fühmann plumbs the ancient tales’ depths and makes them his own. Attuned to conflict and paradox, he sheds light on the complexities of sex and love, art and beauty, politics and power. In the title story, the love of the goddess Eos for the mortal Tithonos reveals the blessing and curse of transience, while “Hera and Zeus” probes the divine couple’s tumultuous relationship and its devastating consequences for a world embroiled in war. Fühmann’s unflinching account of Marsyas’ flaying by Apollo has been widely read as a dissident political statement that has lost none of its incisive force. At times charged with sensuality, and at others honed to a keen analytical edge, Fühmann’s shimmering prose is matched by Sunandini Banerjee’s exquisite collages.
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Franz Fühmann (1922–1984) was one of modern Germany’s most fascinating literary figures and the author of dozens of novels, short stories, essays, poems, ballets, and children's books. Isabel Fargo Cole is a United States-born, Berlin-based writer and translator. She is the initiator and coeditor of No Man's Land, an online magazine for new German literature in English.

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"Cole’s wonderful translation splits the difference between contemporary English and epic grandiosity, and will assist the reader encountering Fühmann’s work for the first time—as will the stunning collages by illustrator Sunandini Banerjee, which incorporate deep colors between a mix of chaotic and structured figure drawing. . . . a dynamic gut-punch of horror and sexuality in poetically bulging prose."

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