Long March of Basic Trust

Chronicle of Emotions; Notebook 2

AvAlexander Kluge

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

As past and future blur, this work from Alexander Kluge reveals the emotional and intellectual currents that drive human survival.A kaleidoscopic journey through history and the vast landscape of human emotion, The Long March of Basic Trust presents Alexander Kluge at his most expansive and incisive. Moving seamlessly across time and space, Kluge weaves a tapestry of lived and imagined experience, interrogating the forces that shape our resilience in the face of catastrophe. From the wreckage of World War II to the deep time of geology, his singular prose dissolves boundaries between the real and the speculative.Blurring the lines between fiction and philosophy, Kluge builds an intricate world enriched by hybrid images and his latest experiment: the “virtual camera,” a cinematic eye that captures the interplay of memory and invention. Now in his tenth decade, Kluge continues his lifelong pursuit of uncovering the patterns that connect us and the basic trust that allows us to go on. Both intellectually provocative and deeply humane, this latest installment in his Chronicle of Emotions is a testament to his unmatched ability to fuse thought and feeling into an electrifying literary form.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-03-27
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:367 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:German List
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Seagull Books London Ltd
ISBN:9781803095479
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 poet and translator based in Berlin.

Innehållsförteckning

1.The Spanish Sentry2.The Pedagogue of Klopau3.Those Who Hope Die Singing4.Arrival of Sunday’s Child5.The Long March of Basic Trust6.Cooperative Behaviour7.Back to Basic Trust8.Basic Trust and Basic Fear9.Distrust Towards Reality10.On the Deep Sleep of the Spirit11.Waking Sleep of Whales and Dolphins12.Undoing a Crime by Means of Cooperation13.A Saturday in October 192914.The Man Without Qualities15.They Did Not Come to Any Conclusion16.Wanderer by Night17.Executing an Elephant18.The Emperor of My Trust19.Star Wars20.Clear Moscow Evenings, When the Northwest Wind Blows21.Galina Starovoitova22.20 Billion Years Before Christ23.More Animals on Earth than Stars in the Milky Way24.The Confidence of Caged Cows25.Negligence in War, Nuclear Power and the Death Penalty26.The Blind and the Inexperienced27.Encounter with the Unknown28.The Waltz of the Generals29.A 570-Million-Year-Old Cloak of Invisibility30.Robinson in Russia31.The Quantum Vacuum, a Poetic Metaphor32.My Paternal Ancestors33.A Complicated Generational Sequence34.Thinking About One’s Own Children in 190835.How the War Was Lost36.The Inventor of Infiltration Tactics37.‘… like a multitude of soft whistles…’38.A Forgotten Weapon39.The Fifth Art of Forgetting40.The Power of Fate41.Extreme Dwarves42.Devils Have a Waiting Period43.The Underwater Artist44.Modern Humankind45.Slave Water46.A Lift into the Oceanic Depths47.Heiner Müller and Project Spring Water