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"Failure is now a trend: artists hold exhibitions on imperfection, scholars compile CVs of their near-misses and business gurus’ advice is to 'fail better'. Writing about one’s flops, though, is a tricky proposition. Failure is only interesting when it happens to the wildly successful –and even they might struggle to reveal the defeats that still sting, the ones most worth reading about. At 93, Hans Magnus Enzensberger has been prolific enough as a poet, essayist, translator and editor to be able to air his disappointments." * Times Literary Supplement *

Table of Contents
Premises
My Failed Film Projects
My Failed Operatic Projects
My Failed Theatrical Projects
My Publishing Projects That Came to Nothing
My Literary Projects That Came to Nothing
My Etcetera Projects that Came to Nothing
A Help-yourself Store of Ideas
Postscript: The Remarkable Rocket

Gone But Not Forgotten My Favourite Flops and

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      Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 23/09/2022
      ISBN13: 9780857429773, 978-0857429773
      ISBN10: 0857429779

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Failure is now a trend: artists hold exhibitions on imperfection, scholars compile CVs of their near-misses and business gurus’ advice is to 'fail better'. Writing about one’s flops, though, is a tricky proposition. Failure is only interesting when it happens to the wildly successful –and even they might struggle to reveal the defeats that still sting, the ones most worth reading about. At 93, Hans Magnus Enzensberger has been prolific enough as a poet, essayist, translator and editor to be able to air his disappointments." * Times Literary Supplement *

      Table of Contents
      Premises
      My Failed Film Projects
      My Failed Operatic Projects
      My Failed Theatrical Projects
      My Publishing Projects That Came to Nothing
      My Literary Projects That Came to Nothing
      My Etcetera Projects that Came to Nothing
      A Help-yourself Store of Ideas
      Postscript: The Remarkable Rocket

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