{"product_id":"at-the-burning-abyss-experiencing-the-georg-trakl-poem-paperback","title":"At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFranz Fühmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eIsabel Fargo Cole\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFranz Fühmann's magnum opus.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt the Burning Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Picking up where his last book, \u003ci\u003eThe Jew Car\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. He confronts Trakl's \"unlivable life,\" as his poetry transcends the panaceas of black-and-white ideology, ultimately bringing a painful, necessary understanding of \"the whole human being: in victories and triumphs as in distress and defeat, in temptation and obsession, in splendor and in ordure.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1982, the German edition of \u003ci\u003eAt the Burning Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e won the West German Scholl Siblings Prize, celebrating its \"courage to resist inhumanity.\" At a time of political extremism and polarization, has lost none of its urgency.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFranz Fühmann\u003c\/b\u003e (1922-84) is one of modern Germany's most fascinating literary figures, and the author of dozens of novels, short stories, essays, poems, ballets, and children's books. \u003cb\u003eIsabel Fargo Cole\u003c\/b\u003e is a US-born, Berlin-based writer and translator.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 310\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.03 x 5.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47392276086962,"sku":"9781803090412","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/b4512fa832cc30d646639bfc94226fab.webp?v=1777959630","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/at-the-burning-abyss-experiencing-the-georg-trakl-poem-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}