This landmark selection of essays via one of many world's maximum dwelling authors makes Durs Grünbein's wide-ranging and multifaceted prose to be had in English for the 1st time, and is a welcome supplement to Ashes for Breakfast, his first book-length number of poetry in English.
Covering twenty years, The Bars of Atlantis unfurls the complete breadth and intensity of Grünbein's essayistic genius. Memoiristic and autobiographical items that introduce Grünbein, the fellow and the writer, and inform the tale of the making of a poet and philosopher towards the top of a century marked by way of international political strife, remarkable human anguish, lengthy many years of totalitarian rule, and, in its ultimate area, the sunrise of a brand new, post–Cold warfare global order; essays that target Grünbein's significant philosophical and aesthetic issues, reminiscent of the intersection of artwork and technology, literature and biology; prolonged reflections at the existential, cultural, political, and moral import of the poet's craft within the modern international; and, eventually, explorations of the which means of classical antiquity for the present―all give a contribution to making.
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