By Michael / Young, Christopher / Leeder, Karen Eskin
Durs Grunbein is the main major poet writing in Germany this present day. No different sleek German poet has written from such an emphatically eu point of view, and this quantity seeks to introduce him to the English-speaking global. Written through a line-up of foreign students, the amount provides hugely readable and wide-ranging essays on Grunbein's giant oeuvre, complemented via specifically commissioned fabric and an interview with the poet. It covers the German and eu traditions, reminiscence and cityscapes, the usual sciences, dying, love, the visible arts, and presence
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Wer erkennt sich schon freiwillig in einem Tier wieder? Wer wäre bereit, die Selbsterkenntnis bis zum Punkt der Verwandlung voranzutreiben? Es entsprach einer tief empfundenen Wahrheit, wenn der Autor sich selber in einem Sonett-Zyklus als jungen Grenzhund portraitierte. Vorbild dafür waren Berichte, die sich in den damaligen Zeitungen häuften und vom Schicksal der Wachhunde handelten, die man zu Hunderten an der Staatsgrenze eingesetzt hatte, sprich zum Zweck der Gefängnishaltung einer ganzen Bevölkerung, und die nun unbrauchbar geworden waren (genauso wie gewisse Schriftsteller, die keiner mehr lesen wollte, nachdem man die Gefängnisbibliothek aufgelöst hatte).
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252. 76 Karl Heinz Bohrer, ‘Erinnerung an Kriterien. Vom Warten auf den deutschen Zeitroman’, Merkur, 49 (1995); reprinted in Maulhelden und Königskinder. Zur Debatte über die deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur, ed. by Andreas Köhler and Rainer Moritz (Leipzig: Reclam, 1998), pp. 137–50 (p. 137). There was a general debate around this time as to whether German literature should orientate itself towards European modernism (Greiner, Schirrmacher, Bohrer) or towards the international norms of entertainment and enjoyment (particularly the influential commissioning editor Uwe Wittstock).