fleurs by Friederike Mayröcker
An uncompromising masterpiece that transforms memory and renewal into a wild world of words.Fleurs—flowers, flower petals—a title that might suggest a gentle world of blooming fields and soft breezes. But in the hands of Friederike Mayröcker, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this is a book of a very different kind. It is a wild, vivid journey into a rich, elemental landscape.
If you follow Mayröcker’s path, you find not a comfortable meadow but steep, stony ground—a place where her inimitable voice rings out in all its power and purity. Unsentimental and crystal clear, Mayröcker’s writing is driven by a single purpose: to create images of remarkable vividness in a language as free, bold, and fresh as if it were newly invented.
The final installment of Mayröcker’s trilogy, following études and cahier, fleurs is a book of memory and renewal, protest and revelation—a testimony to the enduring magic of writing itself.
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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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‘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
Friederike Mayröcker (1924–2021) was among the most influential and decorated German-language poets of the postwar period. The recipient of numerous awards, including the renowned Georg Büchner Prize, during her lifetime, she published over eighty works, including poetry, prose, radio plays, and children’s books. Donna Stonecipher is the author of five books of poetry and one of prose. She translated Ludwig Hohl’s Ascent and cotranslated Alexander Kluge’s Temple of the Scapegoat.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781803096384 |
| ISBN 10 | 1803096381 |
| Title | fleurs |
| Author | Friederike Mayröcker |
| Series | The German List |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Seagull Books |
| Year published | 2026-07-06 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |