The Air Raid on Halberstadt on 8 April 1945 by Kluge, Alexander

The Air Raid on Halberstadt on 8 April 1945

A powerful work by the heralded writer, this collection is a touchstone event in German literature of...
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Author: Alexander Kluge
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The Air Raid on Halberstadt on 8 April 1945 by Kluge, Alexander

The Air Raid on Halberstadt on 8 April 1945

CHF 29.39

The Air Raid on Halberstadt on 8 April 1945

CHF 29.39
Author: Alexander Kluge
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A powerful work by the heralded writer, this collection is a touchstone event in German literature of the post-war era.

On April 8, 1945, several American bomber squadrons were informed that their German targets were temporarily unavailable due to cloud cover. As it was too late to turn back, the assembled ordnance of more than two hundred bombers was diverted to nearby Halberstadt. A mid-sized cathedral town of no particular industrial or strategic importance, Halberstadt was almost totally destroyed, and a then-thirteen-year-old Alexander Kluge watched his town burn to the ground. Incorporating photographs, diagrams, and drawings, Kluge captures the overwhelming rapidity and totality of the organized destruction of his town from numerous perspectives, bringing to life both the strategy from above and the futility of the response on the ground. Originally published in German in 1977, this exquisite report, fragmentary and unfinished, is one of Kluge's most personal works and one of the best examples of his literary technique. The English edition of Air Rair includes additional new stories by the author and features an appreciation of the work by W. G. Sebald. "More than a few of Kluge's many books are essential, brilliant achievements. None are without great interest."--Susan Sontag

Author: Alexander Kluge
Publisher: Seagull Books
Published: 11/15/2014
Pages: 138
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.07h x 6.07w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780857420794

About the Author

Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. Martin Chalmers is a Berlin-based translator from Glasgow. He has translated some of the best-known German-language writers, including Herta Müller, Elfriede Jelinek, and Hans Magnus Enzensberger.





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