Circus Commentary by Alexander Kluge
Alexander Kluge explores the madcap, multifaceted world of the circus through a global geopolitical lens.The circus has fascinated Alexander Kluge ever since he was a child, and his devotion to it has been preserved throughout his cinematic output and his most recent literary work. In the circus, he finds both the shadow image of work and the epitome of human excellence, from love to war to revolution. As surfaces onto which utopias are projected, these elaborate performances offer a tangible representation of developments within civilization, with its nearly infinite possibilities and sometimes inevitable crashes—from the excited roar of the crowd to death on the floor of the ring.
In Circus Commentary, Kluge’s montage of modernities moves back and forth through time and space, expressing his unique mix of fictional and non-fictional reports, histories, and stories through semantic fields, images, and film sequences inserted in the book via QR codes. We encounter a broad panorama of perplexed artists and sophisticated surgeons cavorting alongside fighter pilots, sans-culottes drunk with dreams of omnipotence, and, most importantly, animals—to whose superhuman performances, this book creates a lasting memorial.
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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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Air Raid
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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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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
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. Alexander Booth is a writer and translator. He lives in Berlin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781803093246 |
| ISBN 10 | 1803093242 |
| Title | Circus Commentary |
| Author | Alexander Kluge |
| Series | The German List |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Year published | 2024-11-13 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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