At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem

by Franz Fühmann

Book Overview

Franz F?hmann's magnum opus.

At the Burning Abyss is a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry.

Picking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off, F?hmann probes his own susceptibility to ideology's seductions--Nazism, then socialism--and examines their antidote,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1803090413
• ISBN13: 9781803090412
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.0"