The Bars of Atlantis: Selected Essays - Couverture rigide

Grunbein, Durs

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374260621 ISBN 13 : 9780374260620

Editeur : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2010

Synopsis

This landmark collection of essays by one of the world's greatest living authors makes Durs Grunbein's wide-ranging and multifaceted prose available in English for the first time, and is a welcome complement to "Ashes for Breakfast" (FSG, 2005), his first book-length collection of poetry in English. Covering two decades, "The Bars of Atlantis" unfurls the entire breadth and depth of Grunbein's essayistic genius: memoiristic and autobiographical pieces that introduce Grunbein, the man and author, and tell the story of the making of a poet and thinker toward the end of a century marked by global political strife, unprecedented human suffering, long decades of totalitarian rule, and, in its final quarter, the dawn of a new, post - cold war world order; pieces that focus on Grunbein's major philosophical and aesthetic concerns, such as the intersection of art and science, literature and biology; extended reflections on the existential, cultural, political, and ethical import of the poet's craft in the contemporary world; and, finally, explorations of the meaning of classical antiquity for the present. All contribute to making this volume a true classic of critical prose.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Durs Grunbein is the author of six previous volumes of poetry and a collection of essays. His work has been awarded many major German literary prizes, including the highest, the Georg Buchner Prize, which he won at age thirty-three. He has lived in Berlin since 1985

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374260621
• ISBN 13: 9780374260620
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible