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OverviewIn the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, this work presents a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept photographs for the darkest month of the year. It includes stories drawn from modern history and the contemporary moment, from mythology, and even from meteorology. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alexander Kluge , Author Gerhard Richter , Hilda Inderwildi , Vincent PauvalPublisher: Diaphanes Imprint: Diaphanes Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 20.80cm Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9783037342374ISBN 10: 3037342374 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 15 November 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsDecember physically ferries the reader back and forth between word and image, prompting a search for equivalents, as well as for those lost elements that have no equivalents. The space that December inhabits--a winter at once ominous and intimate, the last breath of the year in anticipation of its end and rebirth--is not unlike the space of translation. --Madeleine LaRue Quarterly Conversation Author InformationAlexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late-20th century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. Gerhard Richter is one of the most respected visual artists of Germany. His seminal works include Atlas (1964), October 18, 1977 (1988), and Eight Grey (2002). 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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