Air Raid by Alexander Kluge
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 midsized 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. Translated by Martin Chalmers, Kluge's Air Raid is a touchstone event in German literature of the postwar era. 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. Now available for the first time in English, Air Raid appears with additional new stories by the author and features an appreciation of the work by W. G. Sebald.-
War Diary
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Intelligence Is the Art of Remaining Faithful under Shifting Circumstances
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The Flying Mountain
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Holderlin
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Sebastian Dreaming
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Monsters Like Us
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Gone But Not Forgotten
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Atlas of an Anxious Man
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The Village Indian
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The Silences of Hammerstein
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Kazimira
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Myself, Four Times
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Without Model
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The Idiots
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fleurs
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‘We Didn’t Do Very Well’
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At the Burning Abyss
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In Search of Lost Time
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Blumenberg
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Rubble Flora
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A History of Clouds
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'I'
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A Slap in the Face
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Night Music
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Old Masters
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Rummelplatz
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Bad Sheep
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Arson
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Lifespan Narratives
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Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow
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The Long March of Basic Trust
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My Mother's Silver Fox
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In the Forest of Metropoles
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Circus Commentary
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Orpheus in the Underworld
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A Skeleton Plays Violin
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The Rest Is Slander
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War Primer
"More than a few of Kluge's many books are essential, brilliant achievementsNone are without great interest." (Susan Sontag) "Kluge's genius is for exposing those little interruptions, those moments that escape totalizing systems. whether National Socialist or Stalinist." (Artforum)"
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 Muller, Elfriede Jelinek, and Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780857420794 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857420798 |
| Title | Air Raid |
| Author | Alexander Kluge |
| Series | The German List |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Year published | 2014-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 138 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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