Neue Rundschau 2016/2 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3108091069 ISBN 13: 9783108091064

Synopsis

"Oh, Amerika, du hast es besser", you can hear it sigh in Germany. And then one refers to the "New York Review of Books," to "Harper's," the "New Yorker," to the "Rolling Stone", which all print essays of a length and density that seems outrageous. And these essays are of a liveliness and accessibility, as if the authors had just moved from sports subject to art criticism. This elasticity has lost a generation of German academics who listened to the buzz of their own discourses with their backs to the world. We are on the trail of the American tradition with an emphasis on the new American essayists: Ben Lerner, Maggie Nelson, Sarah Manguso, J. J. Sullivan and many more...

Edition details

• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3108091069
• ISBN 13: 9783108091064
• Binding: Paperback