Impromptus: Selected Poems and Some Prose
An extraordinary collection of poetry and prose from the master of German expressionismThe first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912)-written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after-with its scandalous closing image of an aster sewn into a corpse by a playful medical student, set Benn on the path to celebrity and notoriety. And indeed, mortality, flowers, and powerful aesthetic collisions typify much of his subsequent work.Over the decades, as Benn suffered the vicissitudes of fate (the death of his mother from cancer; the death of his first wife, Edith; his brief attempt to ingratiate himself with the Nazis, f…
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Weitere Autoren: Hofmann, Michael (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-374-17537-5
- EAN: 9780374175375
- Produktnummer: 19353715
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 383 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.6 cm x D4.5 cm 743 g
- Gewicht: 743
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Gottfried Benn; Translated from the German and Edited by Michael Hofmann
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