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Hardcover The Gentle Apocalypse: Truth and Meaning in the Poetry of Georg Trakl Book

ISBN: 157113588X

ISBN13: 9781571135889

The Gentle Apocalypse: Truth and Meaning in the Poetry of Georg Trakl

(Part of the Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Series)

Like much German-language poetry of the years preceding the First World War, the poems of Georg Trakl (1887-1914) are imbued with a sense of historical crisis, but what sets his work apart is the mildness and restraint of his images of universal disintegration. Trakl typically couched his vision of the end of days in images of migrating birds, abandoned houses, and closing eyelids, making his poetry at once apocalyptic, rustic, and intimate. The...

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