The Diary of Kaspar Hauser

This intriguing gem of a book is a direct, germinal expression of the author s longstanding fascination...
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Author: Febbraro Paolo
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Diary of Kaspar Hauser by Paolo, Febbraro

The Diary of Kaspar Hauser

CHF 37.93

The Diary of Kaspar Hauser

CHF 37.93
Author: Febbraro Paolo
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

This intriguing gem of a book is a direct, germinal expression of the author s longstanding fascination with the figure of the Idiot in Western literature. Part notebook, part ethical treatise, part fantasized autobiography, The Diary of Kaspar Hauser is a striking collection of forty or so haiku-like compositions, diary entries imagined to have been penned by the "idiot" Kaspar Hauser and discovered, by chance, after his death by brutal murder, among the papers of his patron, Franz Paul Webern. (Franz is Kaspar s interlocutor throughout the poems.) This hyperpoetic component of the book - inspired by Werner Herzog s masterful film - is sandwiched between two essays: the first, an Introduction recounting the remarkable discovery and history of the fabled manuscript; the second, comprising a one-page Epilogue (which details the death of Kaspar) along with a letter in the form of an Appendix by a fictional, highly cultured, Borges-like literary critic who converses with the eponymous "Febbraro" about his startling, dreamlike find.

The book has all the characteristics - concision of language, fanciful flights of fiction and criticism in concentrated poetic form, sparse elements of theatrical dialogue, a fierce philosophical underpinning - to make for an "ancient novelty" of sorts: a daring book that surprises and forces us to rethink what we think we already know.



Author: Febbraro Paolo
Publisher: Negative Capability Press
Published: 04/30/2017
Pages: 110
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780998677705

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