Burning of the Books and other poems
The title-poem of George Szirtes' The Burning of the Books and other poems is the core of this collection of narrative sequences by a writer who came to Britain as a child refugee after the Hungarian Uprising. Book burning is associated with the Nazis' burning of what they considered to be subversive books in 1933, but the practice has a long history, right down to our own day. In this particular case the burning refers to the library of Kien, the scholar, in Elias Canetti's novel Auto da Fé. The poems follow and expand from the events of Canetti's book in a variety of forms not previously used by Szirtes. Two further sequences are concerned…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78037-020-0
- EAN: 9781780370200
- Produktnummer: 15880363
- Verlag: Bloodaxe Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 106 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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