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Circus Commentary

BuchGebunden
208 Seiten
Englisch
Seagull Books London Ltderschienen am19.09.2024
Alexander Kluge explores the madcap, multifaceted world of the circus through a global geopolitical lens. The circus has fascinated Alexander Kluge ever since he was a child, and his devotion to it has been preserved throughout his cinematic output and his most recent literary work. In the circus, he finds both the shadow image of work and the epitome of human excellence, from love to war to revolution. As surfaces onto which utopias are projected, these elaborate performances offer a tangible representation of developments within civilization, with its nearly infinite possibilities and sometimes inevitable crashes-from the excited roar of the crowd to death on the floor of the ring.   In Circus Commentary, Kluge´s montage of modernities moves back and forth through time and space, expressing his unique mix of fictional and non-fictional reports, histories, and stories through semantic fields, images, and film sequences inserted in the book via QR codes. We encounter a broad panorama of perplexed artists and sophisticated surgeons cavorting alongside fighter pilots, sans-culottes drunk with dreams of omnipotence, and, most importantly, animals-to whose superhuman performances, this book creates a lasting memorial.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextAlexander Kluge explores the madcap, multifaceted world of the circus through a global geopolitical lens. The circus has fascinated Alexander Kluge ever since he was a child, and his devotion to it has been preserved throughout his cinematic output and his most recent literary work. In the circus, he finds both the shadow image of work and the epitome of human excellence, from love to war to revolution. As surfaces onto which utopias are projected, these elaborate performances offer a tangible representation of developments within civilization, with its nearly infinite possibilities and sometimes inevitable crashes-from the excited roar of the crowd to death on the floor of the ring.   In Circus Commentary, Kluge´s montage of modernities moves back and forth through time and space, expressing his unique mix of fictional and non-fictional reports, histories, and stories through semantic fields, images, and film sequences inserted in the book via QR codes. We encounter a broad panorama of perplexed artists and sophisticated surgeons cavorting alongside fighter pilots, sans-culottes drunk with dreams of omnipotence, and, most importantly, animals-to whose superhuman performances, this book creates a lasting memorial.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-80309-324-6
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum19.09.2024
Seiten208 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm
Gewicht454 g
Artikel-Nr.60967749
Rubriken
GenreRomane Hardcover

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. The Virus as Quick-Change Artist2. At the Border the Animals Roared / In the Circus Tent the Lights Went Out3. Work / Ability! Circus / Art4. The Emergence of New York´s High-Rises from Out of the Spirit of the Amusement Park5. Curiosity for the Truly Wild´6. Animals During a Bombing Campaign7. He Saved the Dearest Thing He Possessed and at the Same Time a Rear Guard of Twelve ElephantsNotes and SourcesImage CreditsAcknowledgementsmehr

Autor

Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. Alexander Booth is a writer and translator. He lives in Berlin.