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Originally published in German in 1981 and appearing here in English for the first time, the final volume of Peter Weiss’s three-volume novel
The Aesthetics of Resistance depicts antifascist resistance, radical proletarian political movements, and the relationship between art and resistance from the late 1930s to the end of World War II.
About the author
Peter Weiss (1916–1982) was a German playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and painter. His works include the plays
The New Trial, also published by Duke University Press, and
Marat/Sade, and the novels
The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman and
The Conversation of the Three Walkers. He received West Germany’s most important literary award, the Georg Büchner Prize, posthumously in 1982.
Joel Scott is a translator, editor, and writer. He is the translator of volume II of
The Aesthetics of Resistance and the author of several poetry chapbooks, the most recent being
Bildverbot and
Diary Farm.
Summary
Originally published in German in 1981 and appearing here in English for the first time, the final volume of Peter Weiss’s three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance depicts antifascist resistance, radical proletarian political movements, and the relationship between art and resistance from the late 1930s to the end of World War II.
