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For the Dying Calves: Beyond Literature: Oxford Lectures

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By (author): Durs Grunbein

Translated by: Karen Leeder

Poetically written and originally given as lectures, this is a moving essay collection from Durs Grünbein.

In his four Lord Weidenfeld Lectures held in Oxford in 2019, German poet Durs Grünbein dealt with a topic that has occupied his mind ever since he began to perceive his own position within the past of his nation, his linguistic community, and his family: How is it possible that history can determine the individual poetic imagination and segregate it into private niches? Shouldnt poetry look at the world with its own sovereign eyes instead?
 
In the form of a collage or photosynthesis, in image and text, Grünbein lets the fundamental opposition between poetic license and almost overwhelming bondage to history appear in an exemplary way. From the seeming trifle of a stamp with the portrait of Adolf Hitler, he moves through the phenomenon of the Führers streets and into the inferno of aerial warfare. In the end, Grünbein argues that we are faced with the powerlessness of writing and the realization, valid to this day, that comes from confronting history. As he muses, There is something beyond literature that questions all writing. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Mar 2022
  • Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780857429544

About Durs Grunbein

Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in 1962 and he now lives in Berlin and Rome. He is professor of poetics and aesthetics at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He has written more than twenty-five books including most recently Porcelain also published by Seagull Books. Karen Leeder is a writer translator and academic. She teaches German at New College Oxford.

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