Georg Bďż1/2chner: The Shattered Whole [Hardcover]

John Reddick (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198158122 | ISBN-13: 978-0198158127 | Publication Date: March 23, 1995

Unflagging revolutionary, closet Christian, extreme nihilist? Different periods and critics have interpreted Georg B�chner in a variety of ways. Although he died when only twenty-three, B�chner's handful of works count among the greatest achievements of modern German writing, and seem to speak with ever greater power and immediacy. This is the first major new study of B�chner in English for nearly twenty years, and it includes original readings of works such as Dantons Tod, Leonce und Lena, and Woyzeck. John Reddick provocatively argues that B�chner was aesthetically so far ahead of his time mainly because he was seriously behind the times in his essentially idealist premises and aspirations.

Editorial Reviews

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`Reddick writes as an enthusiast making grand, indeed exclusive claims for Buechner's status...To this excellent translation of Buechner's works ...Reddick has now added this study, thr first in English for many years. English readers who until recently might see in Buechner a remote foreign genius now have no excuses.' The Times Literary Supplement

`Reddick writes as an enthusiast making grand, indeed exclusive claims for Buchner's status...To this excellent translation of Buchner's works ...Reddick has now added this study, thr first in English for many years. English readers who until recently might see in Buchner a remote foreign genius now have no excuses.' The Times Literary Supplement

`Reddick's reading of Buchner is eloquent, impassioned and frequently compelling.' London Review of Books

`Reddick writes as an enthusiast making grand, indeed exclusive claims for Buchner's status...To this excellent translation of Buchner's works ...Reddick has now added this study, the first in English for many years. English readers who until recently might see in Buchner a remote foreign genius now have no excuses.' The Times Literary Supplement

`Reddick's main hypothesis is a courageous effort to specify a unitary ontological impetus throughout Buchner's writings.' Rodney Taylor, Truman State University, German Studies Review

`makes a robust and well-informed attempt to confront B.'s works afresh and ask fundamental questions about their meaning and status. ... Reddick draws upon an impressive fund of knowledge that has resulted from many years' intimate study of the texts and he has a great deal of penetrating comment to make on the characters of the plays and their (and their creator's) values, ideas, and politics.' The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, vol.57, 1995

About the Author

John Reddick, Professor of German and Head of Department of German, University of Liverpool.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 408 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 23, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198158122
• ISBN-13: 978-0198158127
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,397,315 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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