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The Principles of Life on Black Friday β Chronicle of Emotions, Notebook 1
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A highly readable and lighthearted, yet intellectually stimulating exploration of the modern human condition.
This volume concerns itself with the question of time, from the description of a brief fragment passing by in a matter of minutes to stories of the unexpected stock-market crash of 1929, a once-in-a-century event that Europeans call βBlack Fridayβ because Wall Streetβs collapse reached the Old World one day later.
Through this exploration of time, Kluge ponders some fundamental questions not altered by the passing of time: What can I trust? How can I protect myself? What should I be afraid of?
Our age today has achieved a new kind of obscurity. Weβve encountered a pandemic. Weβve witnessed the Capitol riots. We see before us inflation, war, and a burning planet. We gaze at the world with suspense. What we need in our lives is orientationβjust like ships that navigate the high seas. We might just find that in Klugeβs vignettes and stories.
The Principles of Life on Black Friday β Chronicle of Emotions, Notebook 1 offers readers a thought-provoking journey through these pressing concerns of modern life.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781803092249
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 04 May 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 6.0mm
Height: 9.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 278
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. Martin Chalmers (1948β2014) was a Berlin-based translator from Glasgow. He translated some of the best-known German-language writers, including Herta MΓΌller, Elfriede Jelinek, and Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Richard Langston is professor of German literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Dark Matter: A Guide to Alexander Klugeand Oskar Negt, editor of Difference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader, and the lead translator of Kluge and Oskar Negtβs History and Obstinacy.
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