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Peter Weiss - Aesthetics of Resistance, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Aesthetics of Resistance

Complete Three Volume Set

Av Peter Weiss

1119 kr

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A major literary event, the publication of Peter Weiss’s monumental three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The crowning achievement of Peter Weiss-the internationally renowned writer best known for his play Marat/Sade-The Aesthetics of Resistance spans the period from the late 1930s to the end of World War II, dramatizing antifascist resistance and the rise and fall of proletarian political parties in Europe.Published between 1975 and 1981, the trilogy follows an unnamed narrator and his peers-sixteen- and seventeen-year-old working-class students-as they explore the affinity between political resistance and art while fighting fascist regimes in Germany and Spain. In 1937 they begin meeting in Berlin’s museums and galleries, where they engage in extended meditations on the political meanings of paintings, sculpture, and literature. Moving from the Berlin underground to the Spanish Civil War to Paris, the narrator later finds himself in Stockholm, gets a job in a factory, joins the Communist Party, and meets Bertolt Brecht. The novel teems with characters, almost all of whom are based on historical figures. By August 1942, many of the narrator’s friends, acquaintances, and fellow members of the anti-Nazi resistance in Berlin are arrested by the Gestapo and executed.Throughout this epic work, Weiss suggests that meaning lies in embracing resistance, no matter how intense the oppression, and that we must look to art for new models of political action and social understanding. The Aesthetics of Resistance is one of the truly great examples of postwar German literature and an essential resource for understanding twentieth-century German history.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-03-31
  • Vikt: 445 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 277
  • Förlag: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9781478029915
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Peter Weiss (1916–1982) was a German playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and painter. His works include the plays The New Trial, also published by Duke University Press, and Marat/Sade, and the novels The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman and The Conversation of the Three Walkers. He received West Germany’s most important literary award, the Georg BÜchner Prize, posthumously in 1982.Volume I was translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Volumes II and III were translated by Joel Scott.

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“One of the most significant works of postwar German literature. . . . Exhilaratingly strange, compelling, and original. Readers who dare to enter this demanding verbal landscape will not come away empty-handed.” - Mark M. Anderson (Bookforum) “The Aesthetics of Resistance offers unique rewards. . . . The book is a search for the ideal named in its title: an art that equals the masterpieces of the past in complexity and power, while standing up against the unjust order that created those masterpieces.” - Adam Kirsch (New York Review of Books) “Some of the most gripping-and most beautiful-passages of Weiss’s novel appear in detailed examinations of classic paintings by Delacroix, Goya, Brueghel, GÉricault, Munch and others, and their bearing on contemporary struggles. . . .Weiss’s project has another, deeper aim than advancing the socialist revolution, namely to give voice to fascism’s victims, and to preserve the memory of their lives and example-hence the archival nature of his work, with its painstaking attention to the names of fallen comrades.” - Noah Isenberg (The Nation) “At once a compelling tale of that resistance and an informative leftist history of the period it is situated in, Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance is not just his piÉce de rÉsistance, but a piÉce de rÉsistance of the twentieth century.” - Ron Jacobs (Counterpunch) “The Aesthetics of Resistance is centrally important to any kind of assessment of twentieth-century German history.” - James Rolleston, editor of (A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka) “A magnum opus which sees itself . . . not only as the expression of an ephemeral wish for redemption, but as an expression of the will to be on the side of the victims at the end of time.” - W. G. Sebald, author of (On the Natural History of Destruction)

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