—KirkusElegant provocations to seize an opera addict’s imagination.
Alexander Kluge, born in German in 1932, is a world-famous author and filmmaker (his twenty-three films include Yesterday Girl, The Female Patriot, and The Candidate), a lawyer, and a media magnate. He has won German’s highest literary award, the George Büchner Prize in addition to his four gold lions from the Venice Film Festival.
Translated by Isabel Cole Donna Stonecipher Martin Chalmers
Translated by Martin Brady
Translated from the German by Michael Hulse
—Ben Lerner, ArtforumKluge’s genius is for exposing those little interruptions, those moments that escape the totalizing systems.
—Times Literary SupplementComet-like fragments that whistle through the European past and present
—KirkusElegant provocations to seize an opera addict’s imagination.
—BookforumFinely drawn and often ingenious analyses of opera as a genre… Unlike anything Kluge has ever written before…
—KGB Bar Book ReviewA bold, galvanizing hybrid of fiction, interview, film theory, German history, scientific inquiry, and his cosmology of cinema.
—W. G. SebaldAlexander Kluge, that most enlightened of writers.
—Susan SontagEssential, brilliant.
—Susan SontagAlexander Kluge is a gigantic figure in the German cultural landscape. He exemplifies—along with Passolini—what is most vigorous and original in the European idea of the artist as intellectual, the intellectual as artist.
