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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Alexander Kluge and Gerhard Richter’s
December (translated by Martin Chalmers) revives a related tradition: the calendar as history, or the 'chronicle.' Kluge’s texts—one for each day of the month—appear opposite images of winter wastescapes by Richter, together forming a stark, disconcerting record of a Germany frozen if not temporally then spiritually.” -- Joshua Cohen * Harper's *
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December 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 *
Table of Contents1 December 1941
2 December 1991
3 December 1931
4 December 1941
5 December 1942
6 December 1989
7 December 1932
8 December 1941
9 December 1941
10 December 1932
10 December 1941
10 December 1944
10 December 2009
11 December 1944
12 December 2009
13 December 2009
14 December 2009
15 December 2009
16 December 2009
17 December 2009
18 December 1941
19 December 2009
20 December 1832
21 December 1945
22 December 1943
23 December 1943
23 December 1932
24 December 1943
25 December 2009
26 December 2004
27 December 2003
28 December 1989
29 December 21,999 BC
30 December 1940
31 December 2009
Calendars Are Conservative
