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Devil's Blind Spot
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Devil's Blind Spot

Martin Chalmers; Alexander Kluge; Michael Hulse

ISBN:

9780811215954

Publisher:

New Directions

Publication Date:

2004

Binding:

Hardcover

Synopsis:
Scathingly clever short stories. Includes "The Devil in the White House" and "The Development of Iraq as a Case for the Files."
At once a genuine story-teller and a literary documentarian, Alexander Kluge's genius lies in the very special way he makes found material his own. Each of the miniatures collected here touches on "facts" and is only several pages long. In just a paragraph he can etch a whole world: he is as great a master of compression as Kafka or Kawabata.
Arranged in five chapters, the dozens of stories of The Devil's Blind Spot are condensed, like novels in pill form. The first group of stories illustrates the little-known virtues of the Devil. The second explores love from Kant and opera through the Grand Guignol. The third is entitled "Sarajevo Is Everywhere" and tests how convincing power is. The fourth group concerns the cosmos, and the fifth ranges all our "knowledge" against our feelings. In each piece, Kluge alights on precise particulars: on board the atomic submarine Kursk, for instance, we are marched precisely step by step through a black comedy of the exact, disastrous stages of thinking that lead to catastrophe. Sample titles include "The Devil in the White House," "The Development of Iraq as a Case for the Files," "Intelligence of the Second Degree," and "Love's Mouth Also Kisses the Dog.

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I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945
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I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945

Martin Chalmers; Victor Klemperer

ISBN:

9780375756979

Publisher:

Modern Library

Publication Date:

2001

Binding:

Softcover

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Stories of Mr. Keuner
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Stories of Mr. Keuner

Martin Chalmers; Bertolt Brecht

ISBN:

9780872863835

Publisher:

City Lights Books

Publication Date:

2001

Binding:

Softcover

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The Aristocrat
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The Aristocrat

Martin Chalmers; Ernst Weiss; Boetius Von Orlamunde

ISBN:

9781852422622

Publisher:

Serpents Tail

Publication Date:

1995

Binding:

Softcover

Synopsis:
The time: the summer of 1913. The place: House Onderkuhle, an exclusive boarding school for the sons of the aristocracy in eastern Belgium. The old order may be crumbling but at Onderkuhle training for a life of command goes unchallenged. The most important lessons: fencing, riding and, above all, the forms of etiquette - 'the refinements of aristocratic intercourse.' Boetius von Orlamunde distinguishes himself at all of these. He subdues his doubts by undertaking ever more extreme physical tests, climaxing in the breaking-in of the stallion Cyrus. On the night the school burns down, Boetius displays cowardice and forfeits nobility. Immediately recognised as a masterpiece on its first publication in 1928, The Aristocrat dissects the collapse of a world of rigid hierarchy and exposes the murderous perversity of those who persist in living by the old rules.

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Children and Fools
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Children and Fools

Martin Chalmers; Erich Fried

ISBN:

9781852422110

Publisher:

Serpents Tail

Publication Date:

1995

Binding:

Softcover

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Detlev's Imitations
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Detlev's Imitations

Martin Chalmers; Hubert Fichte

ISBN:

9781852421670

Publisher:

Serpents Tail

Publication Date:

1992

Binding:

Softcover

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