On Life, Death, and This and That of the Rest: The Frankfurt Lectures on Poetics

On Life, Death, and This and That of the Rest: The Frankfurt Lectures on Poetics

On Life, Death, and This and That of the Rest: The Frankfurt Lectures on Poetics

On Life, Death, and This and That of the Rest: The Frankfurt Lectures on Poetics

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Overview

The Lectures on Poetics Series at the University of Frankfurt VI has hosted many illustrious speakers at its lectern, including Ingeborg Bachmann, Theodor Adorno, and Heinrich Böll. At the beginning of 2007, Urs Widmer—described by the Independent as “one of the living greats of Swiss literature”—spoke to more than twelve hundred students and enthusiasts, sharing the sum of his understandings of poets and their timeless creations.

In On Life, Death, and This and That of the Rest, English language readers will gain access to Widmer’s historic talks for the first time through Donal McLaughlin’s excellent translation. Here, Widmer imparts his views on the poet as deviant and as sufferer, and as the conduit for the dream of singing to the imagination in the nameless voice of the people. Here, one of our finest living writers shares his experience of life as an author and as a devotee of the printed word with a new and enthusiastic readership.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780857425287
Publisher: Seagull Books
Publication date: 02/15/2018
Series: The Swiss List
Edition description: 1
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Urs Widmer is cofounder of Verlag der Autoren, an author-owned publishing house focusing on texts related to the performing arts. His works include the novels My Mother’s Lover and My Father’s Book, both published by Seagull Books. Donal McLaughlin specializes in translating Swiss fiction.

Table of Contents

Lecture 1 On Deviating from the Norm 1

Lecture 2 On the Suffering of Writers 22

Lecture 3 On the Dream of Singing Anonymously in the Voice of the People 43

Lecture 4 On Imagination, Megalomania, Memory, Death and Life 66

Lecture 5 On Oedipus the King and Sophocles 88

Noted 112

Bibliography 116

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