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THE HOUR THAT BREAKS
GOTTFRIED BENN: A BIOGRAPHY |
| By: |
Martin Travers |
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Paperback |
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£104.70 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3034310986 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783034310987 |
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| Publisher: |
PETER LANG AG, INTERNATIONALER VERLAG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN |
| Pub. date: |
8 July, 2015 |
| Pages: |
516 |
| Description: |
This is the first biography in English of the major German poet Gottfried Benn (1886-1956). The book focuses both on the key events of Benn's personal and public life, and on his development as a poet. There are detailed discussions of many of his poems, a number of which are translated here for the first time. |
| Synopsis: |
The Hour That Breaks is the first biography of Gottfried Benn to appear in English. The author of this study charts in impressive detail the complex paths of Benn's life, through the demands of his medical practice and military involvement in two world wars, his brief political advocacy of Hitler and Nazism in 1933, to his final "comeback" in post Second World War Germany. The author also engages with Benn's extensive body of poetry which, inventive, challenging and formally wrought, was the product of mind that was both radical and conservative. The same propensity to invention and transformation also informed Benn's personal and professional life, giving rise to a practice of role-playing and dissimulation that the poet termed a "double life". As Travers shows in this well-written and informative biography, this was a strategy of survival of which Benn, ultimately, was as much the victim as the master. This biography also offers fresh translations of many of Benn's poems, a number of which appear here in English for the first time. |
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Switzerland |
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
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