Gottfried Benn

Selected Poems and Prose (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Paisey, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gottfried Benn ranks among the most significant German poets of the twentieth century. His early work, with its shockingly graphic depictions of human suffering and degradation, was associated with the Expressionist movement; the overriding theme of his later work was the isolation and fragmentation of the human being adrift in a nihilistic world. David Paisey here presents two selections, of verse and prose respectively, from Benn’s large oeuvre, ordered chronologically to enable readers to perceive the developments of Benn’s art and thought. The original German text of the poems is also included. In an important biographical introduction, Paisey tackles the difficult question of Benn’s compliance with the Nazi regime and its impact on his life and work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fyfield Books
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847775092
• Artikelnr.: 40073653

Autorenporträt

Gottfried Benn was a German writer and poet who began writing in 1912 before his avant-garde poems were censored by Nazis during World War II. David Paisey is a translator who worked as a German specialist in the British Museum Library where he produced its catalog of German books of the 17th century.