Dictations: On Haunted Writing

by Avital Ronell

Avital Ronell, author of Crack Wars and The Telephone Book , defies the undefiable. In Dictations she looks at Goethe, the dictator. A figure whose every word is treated with reverence by Germanists, Goethe is exemplary. But of what? As if teetering between life and death, Goethe was born in a legendary way: thought to be stillborn, he was brought to life by extraordinary efforts. Eighty-three years later he died, or seemed to, and was praised as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803289456
• ISBN13: 9780803289451
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"