{"product_id":"image-for-investigation-christoph-meckel-9789810967628","title":"Image for Investigation: About my Father","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImage for Investigation: About my Father\u003c\/em\u003e is Christoph Meckel's celebrated work of memoir or \"father-biography\" in the mould of Paul Kersten's\u003cem\u003e Der alltägliche Tod meines Vaters\u003c\/em\u003e and Ruth Rehmann's \u003cem\u003eDer Mann auf der Kanzel\u003c\/em\u003e. The book is an act of \u003cem\u003eneed\u003c\/em\u003e, personal and political: an attempt, by the son of a former German officer in the Second World War, to account not merely for his father's actions but for the actions of a generation. His compassion, his dexterity with the knife, his lack of sentiment when sentiment would only slow his hand, his seeing around his subject, his willingness (an artist's) to explore--these traits make \u003cem\u003eImage \u003c\/em\u003ean uncommon work of its kind. Meckel's language is unsparing, torn from a heart shut tight and wounded by love. This edition revises Stan Jones's original translation, and includes a new introduction by Ben Winch.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Ironically, the portrait which is more believable is not that of E. Meckel but of the author himself, who inadvertantly appears in the role of a judgemental, petulant and vindictive son, out to even with his father for the many unjust punishments he had suffered at the latter's hands.\" -- Anest Andrea, \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A chapter of family history, which is not unique and not purely private but representative and political through-and through. . . . A sensitive officer, who would rather have sat at his writer's desk and yet enjoyed command; a father, who would rather have been the dad-at-play and yet claims the position of head of the family in all circumstances and sees correction as his duty: the images fit together exactly.\" -- Elsbeth Pulve, \u003cem\u003eSchweizerische Monatshefte\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christoph Meckel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9810967624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789810967628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verbivoraciouspress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.29d","brand":"Christoph Meckel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437411873023,"sku":"9789810967628","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dccafe8c-96b7-4329-91dd-1d1497695cb3.jpg?v=1777161636","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/image-for-investigation-christoph-meckel-9789810967628","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}