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Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing (Rethinking Theory) - Softcover
Synopsis
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: Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Robert Musil, Martin Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin. The result is a remarkable examination of a moment 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. Written in elegant and jargon-free prose, Michael Andre Bernstein's essays create a vivid image of an epoch whose aspirations and torments continues to shape the world we inhabit today.
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About the Author
MICHAEL ANDRE BERNSTEIN is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Foregone Conclusions: Against Apocalyptic History; Bitter Carnival: Ressentiment and the Abject Hero; and The Tale of the Tribe: Ezra Pound and the Modern Verse Epic. his work regularly appears in the New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications.
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