{"product_id":"at-the-burning-abyss-franz-fhmann-9781803090412","title":"At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem","description":"\u003cb\u003eFranz F?mann's magnum opus.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt the Burning Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Picking up where his last book, \u003ci\u003eThe Jew Car\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1982, the German edition of \u003ci\u003eAt the Burning Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Franz F?mann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1803090413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803090412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seagull Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.03h x 5.12w x 0.64d","brand":"Franz F?mann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073299804415,"sku":"9781803090412","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_71b67950-f754-4cc7-984c-b829a3c1d187.jpg?v=1685447013","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/at-the-burning-abyss-franz-fhmann-9781803090412","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}