Zarathustra's Children: A Study of a Lost Generation of German Writers

by Raymond Furness

The aim of this book is to explore "that post-Nietzschean archipelago of German literature which no one mind can hope to map, let alone inhabit" (Michael Hamburger) and to introduce it to the English-speaking reader for the first time, in accessible form. The study starts from the assumption that the daring imagery and cosmic sweep of Thus Spake Zarathustra provided the impetus for the creation of visionary epics and cosmological poetic universes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571130578
• ISBN13: 9781571130570
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"