Georg Büchner: The Shattered Whole

by John Reddick

Unflagging revolutionary, closet Christian, extreme nihilist? Different periods and critics have interpreted Georg B chner in a variety of ways. Although he died when only twenty-three, B chner's handful of works count among the greatest achievements of modern German writing, and seem to speak with ever greater power and immediacy. This is the first major new study of B chner in English for nearly twenty years, and it includes original readings of works such as Dantons Tod, Leonce und Lena, and Woyzeck. John Reddick provocatively argues that B chner was aesthetically so far ahead of his time mainly because he was seriously behind the times in his essentially idealist premises and aspirations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198158122
• ISBN13: 9780198158127
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"