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Author : Robert Cohen
Release : 1993
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 983/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Understanding Peter Weiss by : Robert Cohen
Download or read book Understanding Peter Weiss written by Robert Cohen. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life & work of the playwright & novelist whose literary stature places him among Boll, Grass, & Frisch as one of the leaders of postwar German literature.
Author : Peter Weiss
Release : 2022-04-26
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 623/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Shadow of the Coachman's Body by : Peter Weiss
Download or read book The Shadow of the Coachman's Body written by Peter Weiss. This book was released on 2022-04-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meticulously observed and macabre tale of hell on earth from the revolutionary German author of the famous play Marat/Sade Peter Weiss’s first prose work, The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body, was unanimously praised as an original and perfect work of art by critics when it appeared in 1960. Here, in poet Rosmarie Waldrop’s stunning translation, Weiss arranges a dark, vividly alive comedy of inert objects in a dismal boarding house—stones, buttons, hooks, needles, chairs, newspapers in an outhouse, clinking tin cups, celestial orbs, sewing machines, an overwound windup music box—which have oblique characters’ shadows as their supporting cast. Described by Weiss as a “micro-novel,” The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body can be obscene, trivial and brutal, and yet it is also peculiarly intimate and offers endless possibilities—like a telescope and kaleidoscope rolled into one.
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Release : 1970
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Author : Peter Weiss
Release : 2005-06-22
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 941/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I by : Peter Weiss
Download or read book The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I written by Peter Weiss. This book was released on 2005-06-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is the crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned dramatist best known for his play Marat/Sade. The first volume, presented here, was initially published in Germany in 1975; the third and final volume appeared in 1981, just six months before Weiss’s death. Spanning the period from the late 1930s to World War II, this historical novel dramatizes antifascist resistance and the rise and fall of proletarian political parties in Europe. Living in Berlin in 1937, the unnamed narrator and his peers—sixteen- and seventeen-year-old working-class students—seek ways to express their hatred for the Nazi regime. They meet in museums and galleries, and in their discussions they explore the affinity between political resistance and art, the connection at the heart of Weiss’s novel. Weiss suggests that meaning lies in embracing resistance, no matter how intense the oppression, and that we must look to art for new models of political action and social understanding. The novel includes extended meditations on paintings, sculpture, and literature. Moving from the Berlin underground to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War and on to other parts of Europe, the story teems with characters, almost all of whom are based on historical figures. The Aesthetics of Resistance is one of the truly great works of postwar German literature and an essential resource for understanding twentieth-century German history.
Author : Christopher Bigsby
Release : 2006-10-19
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 117/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust by : Christopher Bigsby
Download or read book Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust written by Christopher Bigsby. This book was released on 2006-10-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. It is also an exploration of the ways in which fiction and drama have attempted to approach a subject so resistant to the imagination. Beginning with W. G. Sebald, for whom memory and the Holocaust were the roots of a special fascination, Bigsby moves on to consider those writers Sebald himself valued, including Arthur Miller, Anne Frank, Primo Levi and Peter Weiss, and those whose lives crossed in the bleak world of the camps, in fact or fiction. The book offers a chain of memories. It sets witness against fiction, truth against wilful deceit. It asks the question who owns the Holocaust - those who died, those who survived to bear witness, those who appropriated its victims to shape their own necessities.
