For the Dying Calves: Beyond Literature: Oxford Lectures
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Poetically written and originally given as lectures, this is a moving essay collection from Durs Gr nbein. In his four Lord Weidenfeld Lectures held in Oxford in 2019, German poet Durs Gr nbein dealt with a topic that has occupied his mind ever since he began to perceive his own position within the past of his nation, his linguistic community, and his family: How is it possible that history can determine the individual poetic imagination and segregate it into private niches? Shouldn't poetry look at the world with its own sovereign eyes instead? In the form of a collage or "photosynthesis," in image and text, Gr nbein lets the fundamental opposition between poetic license and almost overwhelming bondage to history appear in an exemplary way. From the seeming trifle of a stamp with the portrait of Adolf Hitler, he moves through the phenomenon of the "F hrer's streets" and into the inferno of aerial warfare. In the end, Gr nbein argues that we are faced with the powerlessness of writing and the realization, valid to this day, that comes from confronting history. As he muses, "There is something beyond literature that questions all writing."
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:085742954X
ISBN13:9780857429544
Release Date:December 2021
Publisher:Seagull Books
Length:164 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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