Description
Book SynopsisThrough a bold combination of meticulous historiographical research and autobiographical material, this book characterizes the post-World War II era as a time of "latency" during which there emerged a new "chronotope," or change in our relationship to time.
Trade Review"Quirky, superbly composed, and nuanced. . . . A totally original meditation on how our sense of time has changed over the last two-thirds of a century." -- Harold Bloom * Yale University *
"This is a fascinating and important book—important because of the way it connects a certain postwar mood with literary and personal examples. I am familiar with a good deal of Gumbrecht's previous work, and as far as I know, this is the first time he has directly addressed the situation of Germany after the Second World War in such a way. The courage, and intellectual honesty, it has taken to write
After 1945 are impressive indeed." -- Françoise Meltzer * University of Chicago *
"This book is willfully 'disheveled,' for lack of a better word. That is, it insists on and performs—successfully, I believe—a purposeful entanglement between autobiography and literature." -- Françoise Meltzer *
Critical Inquiry *
"This is no ordinary book. . . . Recommended. All levels of students through faculty" -- R. C. Conard *
Choice *
"Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is a true international figure—a Bavarian Romance scholar with an American career that extends to literary theory, cultural history, and history of ideas. . . . His ambitious new book on mood, philosophy of history, and contemporary analysis is an interesting and peculiar example of what the humanities can also create." -- Frederik Stjernfelt *
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