Primal Vision: Selected Prose & Poetry

Primal Vision: Selected Prose & Poetry
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These selected writings of Gottfried Benn or "primal visions" of the 1920s anticipated in certain ways the positions of such writers today as Beckett and Genet, the French "antinovelists" and the American "Beats."
Gottfried Benn (1886-1957) occupies a position in modern German literature often compared to that of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound in English. This volume presents a comprehensive anthology of the authorâ€™s finest work-poetry (with the German originals en face), short stories, a scene from one of his plays, essays and autobiographical writings, including a unique insight into the German intellectual metamorphosis before, under and after Hitler. And in a long introduction, the editor, E. B. Ashton, places Benn in the perspective of recent German history and gives an account of his lifeâ€“â€“a dramatic and moving story in its own right. By profession a physician, Benn was fascinated by the philosophical aspects of many branches of science, and over the years he wrote a number of extraordinary essays in which the poetâ€™s intuitive vision was accorded the utmost imaginative freedom.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1971-01-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811200080

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