Book of Commentary / Unquiet Garden of the Soul

Name: Book of Commentary / Unquiet Garden of the Soul
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AvAlexander Kluge,Alexander Booth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

281 kr

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Beskrivning

A highly engaging exploration of existential questions, written in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. The Book of Commentary / Unquiet Garden of the Soul confronts the reader with questions of existential meaning, questions rendered all the more potent by the backdrop of the Coronavirus pandemic: How fragile are we as human beings? How fragile are our societies? What is a “self,” an “I,” a “community”? How are we to orient ourselves? And what, if any, role does commentary play? In a fashion that will be familiar to longtime admirers of Alexander Kluge, the book stretches both back in time to the medieval glossators of Bologna and forward into interstellar space with imagined travel to the moon Europa. Kluge’s characteristic brief, vignette-like prose passages are interspersed with images from his own film work and QR codes, forming a highly engaging, thoroughly contemporary read.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-06
Mått:6 x 9 x 27 mm
Vikt:670 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:292
Förlag:Seagull Books London Ltd
ISBN:9781803092607
Översättare:Alexander Booth

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Mer om författaren

Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. Alexander Booth is a writer and translator.

Innehållsförteckning

STATION 1. The Challenge which Began that Gloomy Advent of 2020STATION 2. Whenever I Think of My Hometown, It Happens through the EarSTATION 3. How Does One Tell a Story from up close?STATION 4. A Strange Creature’s Knocking at Our DoorSTATION 5. ‘Dependability in the Upper Echelons of the World’s Leaders’STATION 6. Where Can We Escape to when the Earth is Destroyed?STATION 7. ‘On the Fragility of the Human Being’STATION 8. Commentary on a Drawing of Sigmund Freud’sSTATION 9. Habermas / CommentSTATION 10. A Long Line of Clever GreeksSTATION 11. In the Lamp of the Soul’s Flickering Light: IntelligenceSTATION 12. The Murmuring of the Pilot FishNotes & Sources