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Genre/Form: | Pictorial works Ouvrages illustrés |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexander Kluge; Gerhard Richter; Martin Chalmers |
ISBN: | 9780857428202 0857428209 |
OCLC Number: | 1233301797 |
Notes: | Translated from the German. This translation originally published: 2012. |
Description: | 1 volume : illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm. |
Contents: | 1 December 19412 December 19913 December 19314 December 19415 December 19426 December 19897 December 19328 December 19419 December 194110 December 193210 December 194110 December 194410 December 200911 December 194412 December 200913 December 200914 December 200915 December 200916 December 200917 December 200918 December 194119 December 200920 December 183221 December 194522 December 194323 December 194323 December 193224 December 194325 December 200926 December 200427 December 200328 December 198929 December 21,999 BC30 December 194031 December 2009Calendars Are Conservative |
Series Title: | The Seagull library of German literature |
Other Titles: | Dezember. |
Responsibility: | Alexander Kluge ; illustrated by Gerhard Richter ; translated by Martin Chalmers. |
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"Alexander Kluge and Gerhard Richter's December (translated by Martin Chalmers) revives a related tradition: the calendar as history, or the 'chronicle.' Kluge's texts-one for each day of the month-appear opposite images of winter wastescapes by Richter, together forming a stark, disconcerting record of a Germany frozen if not temporally then spiritually." -- Joshua Cohen * Harper's * "December physically ferries the reader back and forth between word and image, prompting a search for equivalents, as well as for those lost elements that have no equivalents. The space that December inhabits-a winter at once ominous and intimate, the last breath of the year in anticipation of its end and rebirth-is not unlike the space of translation." -- Madeleine LaRue * Quarterly Conversation * Read more...

