Primal Vision: Selected Writings of Gottfried BennNew Directions Publishing, 1971 - 291 oldal 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. |
Tartalomjegyzék
The Birthday | 3 |
Alexanders March By Means of Flushes | 25 |
The New Literary Season | 39 |
Excerpts from The Way of an Intellectualist | 54 |
Art and the Third Reich | 83 |
Excerpts from Novel of the Phenotype | 120 |
Block II Room 66 | 135 |
Letter from Berlin July 1948 | 160 |
Future and Present | 175 |
Nihilism or Positivism? | 209 |
Monologue Monolog | 259 |
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