{"title":"Franz Fühmann","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFranz Fühmann\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a unique blend of literary reflection and cultural exploration, inviting readers into the depths of poetic and artistic experience. His works often engage with themes of memory, history, and the power of language, illustrated by explorations such as those found in \u003cem\u003eAt the Burning Abyss – Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFühmann’s writing also crosses into speculative realms, blending intellectual rigour with imaginative narrative, as showcased in titles like \u003cem\u003eScience Fiktion\u003c\/em\u003e. This collection is ideal for those drawn to thought-provoking literature that bridges arts and culture with a visionary edge.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"science-fiktion-by-franz-fuhmann-9781803091846","title":"Science Fiktion","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA German twist on an Anglophone tradition, \u003ci\u003eScience Fiktion\u003c\/i\u003e provides a disturbing vision of the future from the other side of the Berlin Wall.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a young reader once asked Franz Fühmann if he considered his work to be science fiction, he was quick to deny it: he wanted nothing to do with the genre. As he began writing the stories that make up this volume, however, he found himself coming around to the idea of a hybrid genre—what he calls in German \u003ci\u003eSaiäns-Fiktschen\u003c\/i\u003e, \"science fiktion\" with a \u003ci\u003ek\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn seven interlocking stories, \u003ci\u003eScience Fiktion\u003c\/i\u003e offers a steampunk takedown of the logic of the Cold War. In this imagined future, two nations compete for global dominance: Uniterr, an exaggeration of the Eastern Bloc, in which personal freedom is curtailed and life regulated with cartoonish strictness; and Libroterr, in which the decadence of the West has been pushed beyond all reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe stories follow three young citizens of Uniterr: Jirro, a young neutrinologist whose life is forever changed by a year spent abroad in Libroterr; Janno, a causologist condemned to a life of mediocrity in Uniterr’s bureaucracy for the briefest of impure thoughts; and Pavlo, an inventor and a drunkard, whose mind pushes against the limits of what his world allows. Through these three lives, Fühmann gradually unfolds the contours of their bizarre world in a master class of understated world-making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the reader is swept up in the madness of Libroterr’s predator ads (which grab you on the street) and Uniterr’s mandatory mind readings, Fühmann’s dark comedy from the last century comes to seem all the more prescient in ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432417050860,"sku":"9781803091846","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781803091846.jpg?v=1774555406"},{"product_id":"at-the-burning-abyss-experiencing-the-georg-trakl-poem-by-franz-fuhmann-9781803090412","title":"At the Burning Abyss – Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFranz Fühmann’s magnum opus.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt the Burning Abyss\u003c\/em\u003e is a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePicking up where his last book, \u003cem\u003eThe Jew Car\u003c\/em\u003e, left off, Fühmann probes his own susceptibility to ideology’s seductions—Nazism, then socialism—and examines their antidote, the goad of Trakl’s enigmatic verses. He confronts Trakl’s “unlivable life,” as his poetry transcends the panaceas of black-and-white ideology, ultimately bringing a painful, necessary understanding of “the whole human being: in victories and triumphs as in distress and defeat, in temptation and obsession, in splendour and in ordure.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1982, the German edition of \u003cem\u003eAt the Burning Abyss\u003c\/em\u003e won the West German Scholl Siblings Prize, celebrating its “courage to resist inhumanity.” At a time of political extremism and polarisation, it has lost none of its urgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470064566508,"sku":"9781803090412","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781803090412-at-the-burning-abyss-experiencing-the-georg-trakl-poem.jpg?v=1775210779"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/franz-fuhmann.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}