Primal Vision: Selected Prose & Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811200080)

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 author'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 life--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 poet's intuitive vision was accorded the utmost imaginative freedom.

Author: Gottfried Benn
ISBN-10: 0811200086
ISBN-13: 9780811200080
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1971
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.24w x 0.86d