The Take-over - Softcover
"The Take-Over" owes its origin to a dream experienced by the author some years ago - a nightmare described in his foreword as 'recognizably relevant to changes in our social and public life...when the story was written.' The setting is a capital city after a coup. The protagonist, a writer, is forbidden to write and instead is appointed court fool, answerable to secret service officers and the Director of the state, who devises for the writer a public function so inappropriate and bizarre that it drives him to the ultimate act of defiance.
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Poet, translator and critic, Michael Hamburger was born in Berlin in 1924 to a German-Jewish family that emigrated to England in 1933. He read Modern Languages at Oxford, though his studies were interrupted by service as an infantryman from 1943-47. He has won many prizes and awards for his translations, including the Schlegel-Tieck prize three times, and has translated - among others - from Baudelaire, Celan, Holderlin and Enzensberger. His critical study, The Truth of Poetry was published in 1969 and his Collected Poems in 1984.
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- PublisherEnitharmon Press
- Publication date1900
- ISBN 10 1900564122
- ISBN 13 9781900564120
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages22
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THE TAKE-OVER. [SIGNED]
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Book Description Tall 8vo. pp 20. Numbered 41 of 90 of this limited edition. Signed by the author at rear. Fine. First Edition. Wraps. Seller Inventory # 58359
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