The Communicating Vessels
Two Portraits of Grief by Friederike Mayroecker
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 256
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780998267586
- Utgivelsesår: 2021
- Bidragsyter: Mayrocker Friederike
199,-
For the first time available in English, two portraits of grief by Friederike Mayr¿cker, one of the significant European writers of our time.
Friederike Mayr¿cker met Ernst Jandl in 1954, through the experimental Vienna Group of German writers and artists. It was an encounter that would alter the course of their lives. Jandl''s death in 2000 ended a partnership of nearly half a century. As writers have for millennia, Mayr¿cker turned to her art to come to terms with the loss. Taking its cue from the Andr¿reton''s work of the same name, The Communicating Vessels is an intensely personal book of mourning, comprised of 140 entries spanning the course of a year and exploring everyday life in the immediate aftermath of Jandl''s death. Rilke is said to have observed that poetry should begin as elegy but end as praise: taking this as a guiding principle, And I Shook Myself a Beloved reflects on a lifetime of shared books and art, impr
Friederike Mayr¿cker met Ernst Jandl in 1954, through the experimental Vienna Group of German writers and artists. It was an encounter that would alter the course of their lives. Jandl''s death in 2000 ended a partnership of nearly half a century. As writers have for millennia, Mayr¿cker turned to her art to come to terms with the loss. Taking its cue from the Andr¿reton''s work of the same name, The Communicating Vessels is an intensely personal book of mourning, comprised of 140 entries spanning the course of a year and exploring everyday life in the immediate aftermath of Jandl''s death. Rilke is said to have observed that poetry should begin as elegy but end as praise: taking this as a guiding principle, And I Shook Myself a Beloved reflects on a lifetime of shared books and art, impr