The Labyrinth of Tender Force – 166 Love Stories

Collects 166 of Alexander Kluge's love stories previously concealed among his vast library of more than 2,000 texts. The latest offering from one of the greatest living German writers, The Labyrinth of Tender Force masterfully explores the greatest peaks and the most dreadful crevasses of passionate love through an inspired combination of Kluge's vignettes with drawings, photographs, and other archival material culled from diverse sources. Organized thematically, these stories take readers on a flight over the maps-the varied topography-of love. This flight ends on a high plateau, at the heart of the most beautiful romances and a cardinal text of modernity about the economy of relationships: Madame de La Fayette's The Princess of Cleves.  

About the author

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 and a translator primarily of music-related, philosophical and literary texts.

Product details

• Authors: Wieland Hoban, Alexander Kluge
• Assisted by: Wieland Hoban (Translation)
• Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781803091792
• ISBN: 978-1-80309-179-2
• No. of pages: 538
• Dimensions: 204 mm x 128 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 716 g
• Series: The Seagull Library of German
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies