The Devil's Blind Spot:

Tales From The New Century

New Directions Publishing, 2004 - 322 Seiten

At once a genuine story-teller and a literary documentarian, Alexander Kluge's genius lies in the very special way he makes found material his own. Each of the miniatures collected here touches on "facts" and is only several pages long. In just a paragraph he can etch a whole world: he is as great a master of compression as Kafka or Kawabata. Arranged in five chapters, the dozens of stories of The Devil's Blind Spot are condensed, like novels in pill form. The first group of stories illustrates the little-known virtues of the Devil. The second explores love from Kant and opera through the Grand Guignol. The third is entitled "Sarajevo Is Everywhere" and tests how convincing power is. The fourth group concerns the cosmos, and the fifth ranges all our "knowledge" against our feelings. In each piece, Kluge alights on precise particulars: on board the atomic submarine Kursk, for instance, we are marched precisely step by step through a black comedy of the exact, disastrous stages of thinking that lead to catastrophe. Sample titles include "The Devil in the White House," "The Development of Iraq as a Case for the Files," "Intelligence of the Second Degree," and "Love's Mouth Also Kisses the Dog."

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Inhalt

Foreword	1

Love as a Foreign Language	41

Sarajevo No Matter What the Place Is Called	99

Flying Blind	161

The Devil in the White House	279

Endnotes	309

Index of Story Titles	317

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Über den Autor (2004)

Born in 1932, a world-famous filmmaker ("Yesterday Girl, The Female Patriot"), a lawyer, a media magnate, an associate of Theodor Adorno and the Frankfurt School, winner of Germany's highest literary award the George Buchner Prize, Alexander Kluge is a phenomenon.

Martin Chalmers is a Berlin-based translator from Glasgow. He has translated some of the best-known German-language writers, including Herta Muller, Elfriede Jelinek and Hans Magnus Enzensberger.

Michael Hulse teaches poetry at Warwick University and regularly does reading tours in England, America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India. He is based in Warwick, England.

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Titel	The Devil's Blind Spot: Tales From The New Century A New Directions book
Autor	Alexander Kluge
Übersetzt von	Martin Chalmers, Hulse Michael
Ausgabe	illustriert
Verlag	New Directions Publishing, 2004
ISBN	0811215954, 9780811215954
Länge	322 Seiten

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