Drawert, K: Was gewesen sein wird - Hardcover

 
9783406674884: Drawert, K: Was gewesen sein wird

Synopsis

Whether he turns to writers such as Flaubert, Büchner or Kafka, places like Prague, New York or Istanbul, the language of dictatorship, political rhetoric or the event space of the poem - Kurt Drawert is always as incorruptible as it is radical, as challenging as vulnerable and as smart as uncompromising when it comes to the threatened position. Subject s in history and about defending his right to presence. How the systems of the world with their constraints and dislocations or even resistances and ecstasies of the individual enroll themselves in the body, the unconscious and the language, always in motion between rebellion and adaptation, self-confidence and self-loss, these essays trace in their own linguistic accuracy. We, their readers, are kept awake by them and sharpened in our critical mind, not to be defenceless to the conflicts of time. Because "what will have been" we still decide ourselves...

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