num_pages: 201
description: Anne Duden's reputation as one of the most innovative writers of her generation, established in 1982 with the experimental stories in Ubergang, was confirmed in 1985 by Das Judasschaf, a novel interweaving an individual's anguish with the cultural trauma of the German past. In her acclaimed poem cycles Steinschlag (1993) and Hingegend (1999) Duden pushes the limits of language in densely metaphoric evocations of landscapes and places of political and personal remembrance, mixing lament for ruined nature with grotesque comedy, mystic vision with horror. Duden is a distinguished practitioner of short forms. Her essays display the same intense engagement with the visual arts as informs her narrative texts. Her deep interest in music is echoed in the musicality of short prose poems.
language: German
title: Anne Duden: A Revolution of Words: Approaches to Her Fiction, Poetry and Essays (German Monitor 56)
titlecomplete: Anne Duden: A Revolution of Words: Approaches to Her Fiction, Poetry and Essays (German Monitor 56) (English and German Edition)
publisher: Brill Academic Pub