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A highly engaging exploration of existential questions, written in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Book of Commentary / Unquiet Garden of the Soul confronts the reader with questions of existential meaning, questions rendered all the more potent by the backdrop of the Coronavirus pandemic: How fragile are we as human beings? How fragile are our societies? What is a βself,β an βI,β a βcommunityβ? How are we to orient ourselves? And what, if any, role does commentary play?
In a fashion that will be familiar to longtime admirers of Alexander Kluge, the book stretches both back in time to the medieval glossators of Bologna and forward into interstellar space with imagined travel to the moon Europa. Klugeβs characteristic brief, vignette-like prose passages are interspersed with images from his own film work and QR codes, forming a highly engaging, thoroughly contemporary read.
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ISBN: 9781803092607
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 06 October 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 6.0mm
Height: 9.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 292
About the Author
Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. Alexander Booth is a writer and translator.
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