At the Burning Abyss - Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem

This work is a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry. Picking up where his last book, 'The Jew Car', left off, Fèuhmann probes his own susceptibility to ideology's seductions - Nazism, then socialism - and examines their antidote, the goad of Trakl's enigmatic verses.

About the author

Franz Fühmann (1922-84) is one of modern Germany's most fascinating literary figures, and the author of dozens of novels, short stories, essays, poems, ballets, and children's books. Isabel Fargo Cole is a US-born, Berlin-based writer and translator.

Product details

• Authors: Isabel Fargo Cole, Franz Fuhmann, Franz Fühmann
• Assisted by: Isabel Fargo Cole (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2017
• EAN: 9780857424327
• ISBN: 978-0-85742-432-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 212 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 451 g
• Series: German List; SB-The German List; The German List; The German List - (Seagull Titles CHUP)
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies