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Schon als Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1982 starb, wollte Ian Penman dem exzessiv produktiven Macher von Filmen wie Angst essen Seele auf oder Die Ehe der Maria Braun ein Buch widmen. Vierzig Jahre später greift er den Plan wieder auf. Sein Pitch: »Di...
[Fassbinder] Thousands of Mirrors is not a sorrowful kill-your-heroes recanting. Its much more interesting than that a freewheeling, hopscotching study of the Fassbinder allure and an investigation of Penmans younger selfIts a book about a film-maker but also, hauntingly, about the way our tastes and passions change over time. Anthony Quinn, Observer Do Penmans flurries of quickfire erudition add up to a dazzling kaleidoscope overall, or a labyrinth of aborted pathways? The answer is both. Hes boldly querying his subjects genius from every vantage point angry and young; older and (maybe) wiser. Tim Robey, Telegraph Ian Penman is an ideal critic, one who invites you in, takes your coat, and hands you a drink as he sidles up to his topic. He has a modest mien, a feathery way with a sentence, a centurys worth of adroit cultural connections at the ready, and a great well of genuine passion, which quickly raises the temperature. Lucy Sante, author of The Other Paris This is a wonderful book, and a surprisingly encouraging one too. Acute in its glancing survey of Fassbinders films, it also engages the early Seventies as a moment of ideological dishevelment that refuses to pass. If Penman lingers over those years in his own taut and revealing way, that is partly because they produced a kind of critical thought that, having not yet been squared up to fit the academic conveyor belt, could be rarified, speculative and experimental while also remaining closely engaged with political reality. Fassbinder is a great model for anyone puzzling over how we might remember as well as think and act in this chaotic time. Patrick Wright, author of The Sea View Has Me Again Ian Penman critic, essayist, mystical hack and charmer of sentences like theyre snakes is the writer I have hardly gone a week without reading, reciting, summoning to mind. The writer without whom, etc. Brian Dillon, author of Affinities Approached from all angles, Fassbinder is by turns a figure of intense corporeality, glistening with sweat, and an overblown mass of meaning. Georgie Carr, Times Literary Supplement The book is many things, but above all it is a reckoning with the idea that art might enter the commodity world and awaken its inhabitants.... [T]he late 1970s/early 1980s, in which Penman was a shadowy but vital presence post-punk, new pop, new romanticism is remembered similarly as a moment where a sudden societal switch led to an efflorescence of radical popular culture. Writing his book in 2022, Penman was remembering Penman in 1982 remembering the just-dead Fassbinder marking one historical moment of transition by making reference to another that took place decades earlier. To read Penman doing this in what feels like another moment of passage into something unknown and frightening is rather eerie. Owen Hatherley, London Review of Books This is a jittery, clammy book, sweat beading on every page In its exuberant phrase making, obsessive listing, emotional explosions and crashes, bursting seams the book has three appendices and its linguistic pyrotechnics, it ultimately comes down on the side of willing delirium. John Douglas Miller, Frieze [A] slender love letter. Stuart Jeffries, Spectator [T]his is the efficient, gregarious guidebook that neophytes have been missing Chris Molner, Los Angeles Review of Books Drifting through personal back alleys and intellectual boulevards la the wanderings of Walter Benjamin and Geoff Dyer. A maze of epigrams, aphorisms (Arent all masks death masks?), anecdotes, and numbered fragments. An exquisitely companionable guidebook-inventory of a vast, intimate mental space Penman dubs the FassbundesrepublikA Thousand Mirrors doesnt try to solve the contradictions of its subject but lays them out like a suit
Ian Penman is a British writer, music journalist, and critic. He began his career at the NME in 1977, later contributing to various publications including The Face, Arena, Tatler, Uncut, Sight & Sound, The Wire, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, and City Journal. He is the author of the collections Vital Signs: Music, Movies, and Other Manias (Serpents Tail, 1998) and It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019). Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is his first original book.