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ISBN 10: 0857424440;
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December.
In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept photographs for the darkest month of the year.
In stories drawn from modern history and the contemporary moment, from mythology, and even from meteorology, Kluge toys as readily with time and space as he does with his characters. In the narrative entry for December 1931, Adolf Hitler avoids a car crash by inches. In another, we relive Greek financial crises. There are stories where time accelerates, and others in which it seems to slow to the pace of falling snow. In Kluges work, power seems only to erode and decay, never grow, and circumstances always seem to elude human control. When a German commander outside Moscow in December of 1941 remarks, "We dont need weapons to fight the Russians but a weapon to fight the weather, " the futility of his struggle is painfully present.
Accompanied by the ghostly and wintry forest scenes captured in Gerhard Richters photographs, these stories have an alarming density, one that gives way at unexpected moments to open vistas and narrative clarity. Within these pages, the lessons are perhaps not as comforting as in the old calendar stories, but the subversive moralities are always instructive and perfectly executed.
Praise for Alexander Kluge: More than a few of Kluges many books are essential, brilliant achievements. None are without great interest. - Susan Sontag; Alexander Kluge, that most enlightened of writers. - W.G. Sebald
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"More than a few of Kluge’s many books are essential, brilliant achievements. None are without great interest." —Susan Sontag;
"Alexander Kluge, that most enlightened of writers." —W.G. Sebald;
"Alexander Kluge and Gerhard Richter’s December (translated by Martin Chalmers) revives a related tradition: the calendar as history, or the ’chronicle.’ Kluge’s texts—one for each day of the month—appear opposite images of winter wastescapes by Richter, together forming a stark, disconcerting record of a Germany frozen if not temporally then spiritually." —Joshua Cohen-Harper's;
"December physically ferries the reader back and forth between word and image, prompting a search for equivalents, as well as for those lost elements that have no equivalents. The space that December inhabits—a winter at once ominous and intimate, the last breath of the year in anticipation of its end and rebirth—is not unlike the space of translation." —Madeleine LaRue | Quarterly Conversation.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late-20th century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Gerhard Richter is one of the most respected visual artists of Germany. His seminal works include Atlas (1964), October 18, 1977 (1988) and EightGrey (2002).
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: Martin Chalmers (1948–2014) was a translator and editor living in Berlin, who translated works by Elfriede Jelinek, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and Alexander Kluge, among others. In 2004, he won the prestigious Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1945–59. He was married to author and translator Esther Kinsky.
| SKU Code | PRK B 5713 |
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| Brand | Bookwomb |
| ISBN No. | 9780857424440 |
| Author Name | Alexander Kluge. Visual Artist - Gerhard Richter. Translated by Martin Chalmers. |
| Publisher Name | PAN MACMILLAN |
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