Title: Five portraits
Description: "In Five Portraits, one of the most acute critical thinkers of our time presents essays on five of the most important writers of the past hundred years. The result is a remarkable examination of a moment of cultural crisis - a time when these writers, caught between the dream of creating an abiding masterpiece and the reality of a brutal culture fascinated by apocalyptic catastrophe, deliberately put themselves and their work at the center of the storm."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: German literature, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Modernism (Literature), Imagination in literature
People: Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), Paul Celan (1920-1970), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Robert Musil (1880-1942), Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
Time periods: 20th century