Primal Vision Selected Prose and Poetry

Name: Primal Vision Selected Prose and Poetry
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ISBN: 9780811200080

ISBN-10: 0811200086

ISBN-13: 9780811200080

Edition: 1960 (Reprint)

Authors: Gottfried Benn, Gottfried Benn, Gottfried Benn

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Gottfried Benn (1886-1957) occupies a position in modern German literature often compared to that of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound in English. This volume presents a comprehensive anthology of the author's finest work-poetry (with the German originals en face), short stories, a scene from one of his plays, essays and autobiographical writings, including a unique insight into the German intellectual metamorphosis before, under and after Hitler. And in a long introduction, the editor, E. B. Ashton, places Benn in the perspective of recent German history and gives an account of his life--a dramatic and moving story in its own right. By profession a physician, Benn was fascinated by the…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1960
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 1/17/1971
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

The publication of Gottfried Benn's first volume of poems, Morgue, in 1912, established him as a member of the European avant-garde and an enfant terrible of expressionism. A Berlin physician, Benn brought to his early poems a medically based obsession with the phenomena of physical and mental decay and a radical disillusionment with the bourgeois world.