Books by Alexander Kluge and Complete Book Reviews
Alexander Kluge, Author, Tim Brady, Translator, Helen Hughes, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $11.95 (111p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1735-4
German filmmaker and novelist Kluge turned 75 this year, and will be honored at the Venice Film Festival. His aphoristic, anecdotal, not-quite-fictional ""stories,"" most less than a page long, seek to encapsulate film's enigmatic essence. At one...
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Alexander Kluge, trans. from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole, Donna Stonecipher, and Martin Chalmers. New Directions, $18.95 trade paper (228p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2748-3
The real and imagined history of opera, the landscape of emotions, and the “blast furnaces of the soul,” guide Kluge’s captivating collection. Over 100 short stories compose a vision of opera as a durable and protean art form. It is both capable of...
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