30 April 1945: The Day Hitler Shot Himself and Germany's Integration With the West Began - Couverture souple

Kluge, Alexander

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1803092297 ISBN 13 : 9781803092294

Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

A reissue of Alexander Kluge's kaleidoscopic view of a historically important day and its effects on many people's lives.

April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday and then a series of transfers of power, April 30 was a day filled with contradictions and bewildering events that would forever define global history. It was on this day that while the Red Army occupied Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker, and, in San Francisco, the United Nations was being founded.

Alexander Kluge's latest book, 30 April 1945, covers this single historic day and unravels its passing hours across the different theaters of the Second World War. Translated by Wieland Hoban, the book delves into the events happening around the world on one fateful day, including the life of a small German town occupied by American forces and the story of two SS officers stranded on the forsaken Kerguelen Islands in the South Indian Sea. Kluge is a master storyteller, and as he unfolds these disparate tales, one unavoidable question surfaces: What is the appropriate reaction to the total upheaval of the status quo?

Presented here with an afterword by Reinhard Jirgl, translated by Iain Galbraith, 30 April 1945 is a riveting collection of lives turned upside down by the deadliest war in history. The collective experiences Kluge paints here are jarring, poignant, and imbued with meaning. Seventy years later, we can still see our own reflections on the upheaval of a single day in 1945.

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À propos des auteurs

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.

Wieland Hoban is a British composer who has translated several works from German, including Night Music, a collection of essays by Theodor W. Adorno.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1803092297
• ISBN 13: 9781803092294
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 302
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• Personne responsable: non disponible