At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781803090412)

Franz F?mann's magnum opus.

At the Burning Abyss 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.

Picking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off, F?mann 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 splendor and in ordure."

In 1982, the German edition of At the Burning Abyss won the West German Scholl Siblings Prize, celebrating its "courage to resist inhumanity." At a time of political extremism and polarization, has lost none of its urgency.

Author: Franz F?mann
ISBN-10: 1803090413
ISBN-13: 9781803090412
Publisher: Seagull Books
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2022
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.12w x 0.64d