Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time

Siegfried Kracauer's Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time brilliantly reconfigures the biography form into a...
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Author: Siegfried Kracauer
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Language: English
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Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time by Kracauer, Siegfried

Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time

€36,84

Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time

€36,84
Author: Siegfried Kracauer
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Siegfried Kracauer's Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time brilliantly reconfigures the biography form into a remarkable work of social and cultural history. In a book that has frequently been compared with Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, Kracauer uses the life and work of Offenbach to assemble a penetrating portrayal of Second Empire Paris.

By examining the superficiality and mystification of collective experience, Kracauer provides the reader with a revelatory "physiognomy" of social reality itself. Offenbach's immensely popular operettas have long been seen as part of the larger historical amnesia and escapism in the aftermath of 1848. But Kracauer insists that Offenbach's productions have to be understood as more than simply glittering distractions.

The fantasy realms of his operettas, occurring amid the urban renewal of Baron Haussmann and the fanfare of Universal Expositions, were on the one hand fully continuous with the unreality of Napoleon III's imperial masquerade, but on the other made a mockery of the pomp and pretenses surrounding the apparatuses of power. His music "originated in an epoch in which social reality had been banished by the Emperor's orders, and for many years it flourished in the gap that was left."

Offenbach's dreamworlds were embedded with a layer of utopian content that can be seen as an indictment of the fraudulence and corruption of the times. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern critical and cultural studies. This edition includes Kracauer's preface to the original German edition, translated into English for the first time, and a critical foreword by Gertrud Koch.

Author: Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 05/13/2016
Pages: 424
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781890951313
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

The works of Siegfried Kracauer (1889--1966) translated into English include Theory of Film; The Salaried Masses; The Mass Ornament; History; and From Caligari to Hitler.


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