Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III A Novel

Weiss Peter
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9781478026938
Publisert
2025-01-28
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Duke University Press
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572 gr
Høyde
235 mm
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152 mm
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01, G, 01
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Engelsk
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Forfatter
Weiss Peter
Oversetter
Scott Joel

Biographical note

Peter Weiss (1916–1982) was a German playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and painter. His works include the plays The New Trial, also published by Duke University Press, and Marat/Sade, and the novels The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman and The Conversation of the Three Walkers. He received West Germany’s most important literary award, the Georg Büchner Prize, posthumously in 1982.

Joel Scott is a translator, editor, and writer. He is the translator of Volume II of The Aesthetics of Resistance and the author of several poetry chapbooks, the most recent being Bildverbot and Diary Farm.

Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III A Novel

Weiss Peter
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“One of the most significant works of postwar German literature. . . . Exhilaratingly strange, compelling, and original. Readers who dare to enter this demanding verbal landscape will not come away empty-handed.”

- Mark M. Anderson,, Bookforum

“For the right reader, The Aesthetics of Resistance offers unique rewards. . . . The book is a search for the ideal named in its title: an art that equals the masterpieces of the past in complexity and power, while standing up against the unjust order that created those masterpieces.”—

- Adam Kirsch,, New York Review of Books

“[<i>The Aesthetics of Resistance</i>,] which [Peter Weiss] began when he was well over fifty, making a pilgrimage over the arid slopes of cultural and contemporary history in the company of <i>pavor nocturnus</i>, the terror of the night, and laden with a monstrous weight of ideological ballast, is a magnum opus which sees itself . . . not only as the expression of an ephemeral wish for redemption, but as an expression of the will to be on the side of the victims at the end of time.”

- W. G. Sebald,

A major literary event, the publication of the final volume of Peter Weiss’s three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. Weiss’s crowning achievement, The Aesthetics of Resistance spans the period from the late 1930s to the end of World War II, dramatizing antifascist resistance and the rise and fall of proletarian political parties in Europe. Volume III, initially published in 1981, teems with characters, many of whom are based on historical figures. It commences in May of 1940, as the narrator’s parents flee Nazi forces in Eastern Europe and reunite with their son in Sweden. While in Stockholm, the narrator and other Communist activists living in exile struggle to build structures in the German underground. The story then follows Communist resistance fighter Charlotte Bischoff, as she is smuggled to Bremen on a freighter. In Berlin, she contacts the narrator’s friends and joins the Red Orchestra resistance group. Soon, the Gestapo cracks the underground group’s code, arrests a number of its members, and takes them to Plötzensee Prison, where most of them are executed. Featuring the narrator’s meditations on paintings, sculpture, and literature throughout, The Aesthetics of Resistance demonstrates the affinity between political resistance and art. Ultimately, Weiss argues that we must look to art for new models of political action and social understanding.
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Originally published in German in 1981 and appearing here in English for the first time, the final volume of Peter Weiss’s three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance depicts antifascist resistance, radical proletarian political movements, and the relationship between art and resistance from the late 1930s to the end of World War II.
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“One of the most significant works of postwar German literature. . . . Exhilaratingly strange, compelling, and original. Readers who dare to enter this demanding verbal landscape will not come away empty-handed.”

- Mark M. Anderson,, Bookforum

“For the right reader, The Aesthetics of Resistance offers unique rewards. . . . The book is a search for the ideal named in its title: an art that equals the masterpieces of the past in complexity and power, while standing up against the unjust order that created those masterpieces.”—

- Adam Kirsch,, New York Review of Books

“[<i>The Aesthetics of Resistance</i>,] which [Peter Weiss] began when he was well over fifty, making a pilgrimage over the arid slopes of cultural and contemporary history in the company of <i>pavor nocturnus</i>, the terror of the night, and laden with a monstrous weight of ideological ballast, is a magnum opus which sees itself . . . not only as the expression of an ephemeral wish for redemption, but as an expression of the will to be on the side of the victims at the end of time.”

- W. G. Sebald,

A major literary event, the publication of the final volume of Peter Weiss’s three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. Weiss’s crowning achievement, The Aesthetics of Resistance spans the period from the late 1930s to the end of World War II, dramatizing antifascist resistance and the rise and fall of proletarian political parties in Europe. Volume III, initially published in 1981, teems with characters, many of whom are based on historical figures. It commences in May of 1940, as the narrator’s parents flee Nazi forces in Eastern Europe and reunite with their son in Sweden. While in Stockholm, the narrator and other Communist activists living in exile struggle to build structures in the German underground. The story then follows Communist resistance fighter Charlotte Bischoff, as she is smuggled to Bremen on a freighter. In Berlin, she contacts the narrator’s friends and joins the Red Orchestra resistance group. Soon, the Gestapo cracks the underground group’s code, arrests a number of its members, and takes them to Plötzensee Prison, where most of them are executed. Featuring the narrator’s meditations on paintings, sculpture, and literature throughout, The Aesthetics of Resistance demonstrates the affinity between political resistance and art. Ultimately, Weiss argues that we must look to art for new models of political action and social understanding.
Les mer
Originally published in German in 1981 and appearing here in English for the first time, the final volume of Peter Weiss’s three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance depicts antifascist resistance, radical proletarian political movements, and the relationship between art and resistance from the late 1930s to the end of World War II.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781478026938
Publisert
2025-01-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
572 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
152 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
01, G, 01
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Weiss Peter
Oversetter
Scott Joel

Biographical note

Peter Weiss (1916–1982) was a German playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and painter. His works include the plays The New Trial, also published by Duke University Press, and Marat/Sade, and the novels The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman and The Conversation of the Three Walkers. He received West Germany’s most important literary award, the Georg Büchner Prize, posthumously in 1982.

Joel Scott is a translator, editor, and writer. He is the translator of Volume II of The Aesthetics of Resistance and the author of several poetry chapbooks, the most recent being Bildverbot and Diary Farm.

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