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Each story presents a snapshot of a personal and historical turning point in the life of the narrator, beginning with childhood anti-Semitism and moving to a youthful embrace—and then an ultimate rejection—of Nazi ideology. With scathing irony and hallucinatory intensity, reflections on the nature of memory, and the individual experience of history, the cycle acquires the weight of a novel.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730746941713,"sku":"NGR9780857427175","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0857427172.jpg?v=1750883813"},{"product_id":"science-fiktion-book-franz-fuhmann-9780857426017","title":"Science Fiktion","description":"When a young reader once asked Franz Fühmann if he considered his work to be science fiction, he was quick to deny it: he wanted nothing to do with the genre. As he began writing the stories that make up this volume, however, he found himself coming around to the idea of a hybrid genre—what he calls in German Saiäns-Fiktschen, `science fiktion’ with a k.   In seven interlocking stories, Science Fiktion offers a steampunk takedown of the logic of the Cold War. In this imagined future, two nations compete for global dominance: Uniterr, an exaggeration of the Eastern Bloc, in which personal freedom is curtailed and life regulated with cartoonish strictness; and Libroterr, in which the decadence of the West has been pushed beyond all reason. The stories follow three young citizens of Uniterr: Jirro, a young neutrinologist whose life is forever changed by a year spent abroad in Libroterr; Janno, a causologist condemned to a life of mediocrity in Uniterr’s bureacracy for the briefest of impure thoughts; and Pavlo, an inventor and a drunkard, whose mind pushes against the limits of what his world allows. Through these three lives, Fühmann gradually unfolds the contours of their bizarre world in a master class of understated world making.   As the reader is swept up in the madness of Libroterr’s predator ads (which grab you on the street) and Uniterr’s mandatory mind readings, Fühmann’s dark comedy from the last century comes to seem all the more prescient in ours. A German twist on an Anglophone tradition, Science Fiktion provides a disturbing vision of the future from the other side of the Berlin Wall.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51150801928465,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51150802223377,"sku":"GOR014187558","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/085742601X.jpg?v=1751363089"},{"product_id":"at-the-burning-abyss-book-franz-fuhmann-9780857424327","title":"At the Burning Abyss","description":"At the Burning Abyss is Franz Fuhmann's magnum opus a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry. Picking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off, Fuhmann probes his own susceptibility to ideology's seductions Nazism, then socialism and examines their antidote, the goad of Trakl's enigmatic verses. He confronts Trakl's \"unlivable life,\" as his poetry transcends the panaceas of black-and-white ideology, ultimately bringing a painful, necessary understanding of \"the whole human being: in victories and triumphs as in distress and defeat, in temptation and obsession, in splendor and in ordure.\" In 1982, the German edition of At the Burning Abyss won the West German Scholl Siblings Prize, celebrating its \"courage to resist inhumanity.\" At a time of political extremism and polarization, has lost none of its urgency.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53243305001233,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53243305984273,"sku":"GOR013140278","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780857424327.jpg?v=1773333378"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-franz-fuhmann.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}