A History of Clouds: 99 Meditations (The German List) - Hardcover

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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ISBN 10: 1906497451 ISBN 13: 9781906497453

Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd, 2010

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"After reading this wonderful volume of poetry one would like to call Enzensberger simply the lyric voice of transience." - Sueddeutsche Zeitung. "With this book Enzensberger reveals himself both as a spokesman of persistence and as a decelerator." - Neue Zuercher Zeitung.

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In these ninety-nine meditations, poet and novelist Hans Magnus Enzensberger celebrates the tenacity of the normal and routine in everyday life, where the survival of the objects we use without thinking - a pair of scissors, perhaps - is both a small, human victory and a quiet reminder of our own ephemeral nature. He sets his quotidian reflections against a broad historic and political backdrop - the cold war and its accompanying atomic threat, the German student revolt, would-be socialism in Cuba, China, and Africa, and World War II as experienced by the youthful poet. Enzensberger's poems are conversational, skeptical, and serene; they culminate in the extended set of observations that gives the collection its title. Clouds, alien and yet symbols of human life, are for Enzensberger at once a central metaphor of the Western poetic tradition and "the most fleeting of all masterpieces. 'Cloud archaeology', writes Enzensberger, is "a science for angels.

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• Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1906497451
• ISBN 13: 9781906497453
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 137