Décembre (French Edition) - Softcover

Kluge, Alexander; Richter, Gerhard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3037342374 ISBN 13: 9783037342374

Publisher: Diaphanes, 2012

Synopsis

In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, this work presents a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept photographs for the darkest month of the year. It includes stories drawn from modern history and the contemporary moment, from mythology, and even from meteorology.

About this title

About the Author:

Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement.

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Gerhard Richter is one of the most respected visual artists of Germany. His seminal works include Atlas (1964), October 18, 1977 (1988), and EightGrey (2002).

Review:

"Alexander Kluge and Gerhard Richter's "December "(translated by Martin Chalmers) revives a related tradition: the calendar as history, or the 'chronicle.' Kluge's texts--one for each day of the month--appear opposite images of winter wastescapes by Richter, together forming a stark, disconcerting record of a Germany frozen if not temporally then spiritually."--Joshua Cohen "Harper's "

""December "physically ferries the reader back and forth between word and image, prompting a search for equivalents, as well as for those lost elements that have no equivalents. The space that "December "inhabits--a winter at once ominous and intimate, the last breath of the year in anticipation of its end and rebirth--is not unlike the space of translation."--Madeleine LaRue "Quarterly Conversation "

About this edition

• Publisher: Diaphanes
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3037342374
• ISBN 13: 9783037342374
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128