Air Raid (The Seagull Library of German Literature) - Softcover

Buch 22 von 26: The German List

Kluge, Alexander; Sebald, W. G.

 
9781803090368: Air Raid (The Seagull Library of German Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1803090367 ISBN 13: 9781803090368
Verlag: Seagull Books, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

A powerful work by the heralded writer, this collection is a touchstone event in German literature of the post-war era.

On April 8, 1945, several American bomber squadrons were informed that their German targets were temporarily unavailable due to cloud cover. As it was too late to turn back, the assembled ordnance of more than two hundred bombers was diverted to nearby Halberstadt. A mid-sized cathedral town of no particular industrial or strategic importance, Halberstadt was almost totally destroyed, and a then-thirteen-year-old Alexander Kluge watched his town burn to the ground.

Incorporating photographs, diagrams, and drawings, Kluge captures the overwhelming rapidity and totality of the organized destruction of his town from numerous perspectives, bringing to life both the strategy from above and the futility of the response on the ground. Originally published in German in 1977, this exquisite report, fragmentary and unfinished, is one of Kluge’s most personal works and one of the best examples of his literary technique.

The English edition of Air Rair includes additional new stories by the author and features an appreciation of the work by W. G. Sebald.

“More than a few of Kluge’s many books are essential, brilliant achievements. None are without great interest.”—Susan Sontag

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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. Martin Chalmers is a Berlin-based translator from Glasgow. He has translated some of the best-known German-language writers, including Herta Müller, Elfriede Jelinek, and Hans Magnus Enzensberger.


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Verlag
Seagull Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1803090367
ISBN 13 
9781803090368
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144
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