At the Burning Abyss
Subtitle: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780857424327
Subjects: Ideology
Description: 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, Fühmann probes his own susceptibility to ideology's seductions - Nazism, then socialism - and examines their antidote, the goad of Trakl's enigmatic verses.