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Revolving around the opera, these tales are an “archaeological excavation of the slag-heaps of our collective existence” (W. G. Sebald)

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""Finely drawn and often ingenious analyses of opera as a genre...Unlike anything Kluge has ever written before..."" -- Ida Hattemer-Higgins - Bookforum
"Elegant provocations to seize an opera addict's imagination." -- Kirkus
"The real and imagined history of opera, the landscape of emotions, and the “blast furnaces of the soul,” guide Kluge’s captivating collection. Over 100 short stories compose a vision of opera as a durable and protean art form." -- Publishers Weekly
"Alexander Kluge, that most enlightened of writers." -- W. G. Sebald
"Alexander Kluge is a gigantic figure in the German cultural landscape. He exemplifies—along with Pasolini—what is most vigorous and original in the European idea of the artist as intellectual, the intellectual as artist. Essential, brilliant." -- Susan Sontag

Temple of the Scapegoat Opera Stories

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    A Paperback / softback by Alexander Kluge, Donna Stonecipher, Isabel Cole

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      Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Publication Date: 16/03/2018
      ISBN13: 9780811227483, 978-0811227483
      ISBN10: 0811227480

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Revolving around the opera, these tales are an “archaeological excavation of the slag-heaps of our collective existence” (W. G. Sebald)

      Trade Review
      ""Finely drawn and often ingenious analyses of opera as a genre...Unlike anything Kluge has ever written before..."" -- Ida Hattemer-Higgins - Bookforum
      "Elegant provocations to seize an opera addict's imagination." -- Kirkus
      "The real and imagined history of opera, the landscape of emotions, and the “blast furnaces of the soul,” guide Kluge’s captivating collection. Over 100 short stories compose a vision of opera as a durable and protean art form." -- Publishers Weekly
      "Alexander Kluge, that most enlightened of writers." -- W. G. Sebald
      "Alexander Kluge is a gigantic figure in the German cultural landscape. He exemplifies—along with Pasolini—what is most vigorous and original in the European idea of the artist as intellectual, the intellectual as artist. Essential, brilliant." -- Susan Sontag

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