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The Labyrinth of Tender Force – 166 Love Stories

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The Labyrinth of Tender Force – 166 Love Stories gathers 166 love stories by Alexander Kluge, previously hidden within his extensive library. Through a blend of vignettes enriched with drawings, photographs, and archival material, the collection maps the complex landscapes of passionate love. The journey culminates with an exploration of The Princess of Cleves, a foundational text on the dynamics of relationships.
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Ideal for readers interested in arts, culture, and literary explorations of love and relationships, especially fans of German literature and experimental storytelling.

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Collects 166 of Alexander Kluge’s love stories previously concealed among his vast library of more than 2,000 texts.

The latest offering from one of the greatest living German writers, The Labyrinth of Tender Force masterfully explores the greatest peaks and the most dreadful crevasses of passionate love through an inspired combination of Kluge’s vignettes with drawings, photographs, and other archival material culled from diverse sources. Organized thematically, these stories take readers on a flight over the maps—the varied topography—of love. This flight ends on a high plateau, at the heart of the most beautiful romances and a cardinal text of modernity about the economy of relationships: Madame de La Fayette’s The Princess of Cleves.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781803091792

Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 May 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 724g

Pages: 538

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. Wieland Hoban is a British composer and a translator primarily of music-related, philosophical and literary texts.

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