Bibliograph

Selected poems and prose, Gottfried Benn

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Selected poems and prose, Gottfried Benn

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Selected poems and prose

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

863822176

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Gottfried Benn

Summary

Gottfried Benn ranks among the most significant German poets of the twentieth century. His early work, with its shockingly graphic depictions of human suffering and degradation, was associated with the Expressionist movement; the overriding theme of his later work was the isolation and fragmentation of the human being adrift in a nihilistic world. David Paisey here presents two selections, of verse and prose respectively, from Benn's large oeuvre, ordered chronologically to enable readers to perceive the developments of Benn's art and thought

Table Of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Translator's Preface; Biographical Introduction; POEMS; Schluss; Nice childhood; Circulation; Appendix; Man and woman walk through the cancer shed; Express; Night cafe; Songs; Then Icarus; Underground train; English cafe; Threats; Express-train; Robbers-Schiller; No comfort here; Night cafe IV; O night; Caryatid; Through the alder wood it was making its way; Journey; The doctor; Poplar; Cocaine; Synthesis; The instrument; Marie; Curettage; Rubble; Palau; Drunken flood; The later I; State Library; Mists; The Danish girl; The singer; Banana; Golgothas; Theogonies

Target audience

adult

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