Binding: Paperback
Description: A major literary event the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth - century German literature available to English - speaking readers for the first time. The three - volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is the crowning achievement of Peter Weiss the internationally renowned dramatist best known for his play Marat/ Sade. The first volume presented here was initially published in Germany in 1975; the third and final volume appeared in 1981, just six months before Weiss's death. Spanning the period from the late 1930s to World War II this historical novel dramatizes antifascist resistance and the rise and fall of proletarian political parties in Europe. Living in Berlin in 1937, the unnamed narrator and his peers sixteen - and seventeen - year - old working - class students seek ways to express their hatred for the Nazi regime. They meet in museums and galleries and in their discussions they explore the affinity between political resistance and art the connection at the heart of Weiss's novel. Weiss suggests that meaning lies in embracing resistance no matter how intense the oppression and that we must look to art for new models of political action and social understanding. The novel includes extended meditations on paintings sculpture and literature. Moving from the Berlin underground to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War and on to other parts of Europe the story teems with characters almost all of whom are based on historical figures. The Aesthetics of Resistance is one of the truly great works of postwar German literature and an essential resource for understanding twentieth - century German history.
Title: The Aesthetics Of Resistance Volume I A Novel
Author(s): Weiss Peter
Publisher: Duke University Press
Barcode: 9780822335467
Pages: 376 Pages
Publication Date: 6/22/2005
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers