{"product_id":"the-aesthetics-of-resistance-volume-i-9780822335344","title":"The Aesthetics of Resistance Volume I","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRegarded by many as one of the leading works of this century, this novel documents the resistance to fascism in Europe (and within Germany) during WWII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e is centrally important to any kind of assessment of twentieth-century German history.”—James Rolleston, editor of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For the right reader, \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e offers unique rewards. The West’s literary memory of twentieth- century communism was largely shaped by ex- and anti-Communist writers like Arthur Koestler, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Czesław Miłosz, and George Orwell, who saw it as inimical to spiritual and intellectual life. Weiss makes a passionate case to the contrary, arguing that for the poor and oppressed, communism offered a key to spiritual and intellectual realms from which they had been historically excluded. But he is also acutely aware that the humanistic, emancipatory communism of his dreams had a foe in the actual Soviet Communist Party, with its demand for total submission to an ever-changing ideological line. Balancing hope against reality, Weiss’s novel tries to carry out the critique-from-within he outlined in his 'Ten Working Points' essay.\" -- Adam Kirsch * New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e,] which [Peter Weiss] began when he was well over fifty, making a pilgrimage over the arid slopes of cultural and contemporary history in the company of \u003ci\u003epavor nocturnus\u003c\/i\u003e, the terror of the night, and laden with a monstrous weight of ideological ballast, is a magnum opus which sees itself . . . not only as the expression of an ephemeral wish for redemption, but as an expression of the \u003ci\u003ewill\u003c\/i\u003e to be on the side of the victims at the end of time.”—W. G. Sebald, \u003ci\u003eOn the Natural History of Destruction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For the reader, \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I\u003c\/i\u003e is as much an act of political memory and learning as it is for the novel’s narrator. . . . Cerebral and absorbing. . . .\" -- Sean Sheehan * Popmatters *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Resistance \u003c\/i\u003ewrites those who have been culturally and historically excluded back into the story of their time and demands—as modernism does—that we learn to read in a new way. . . . The monuments of modernism today rise like Ozymandias’ statue in the sand: \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, Proust, Beckett, Pound’s Cant\u003ci\u003eos, The\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaking of Americans\u003c\/i\u003e, The Wa\u003ci\u003este Land. At l\u003c\/i\u003east, we have an English translation of a work that stands alongside them.\" -- Robert Buckeye * Review of Contemporary Fiction *\u003cbr\u003e\"At once a compeling tale of that resistance and an informative leftist history of the period it is situated in, Weiss’s \u003ci\u003eAesthetics of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e is not just his piéce de résistance, but a piéce de résistance of the twentieth century.\" -- Ron Jacobs * Counterpunch *\u003cbr\u003e\"[O]ne of the most significant works of postwar German literature. . . . The novel feels like an endless soliloquy on a bare stage, but one that takes the audience on the most amazingly imaginative time-and-space journey, with the narrative perspective cutting like a movie director's camera from one intensely rendered visual detail to the next. . . . [E]xhilaratingly strange, compelling, and original. Readers who dare to enter this demanding verbal landscape will not come away empty-handed.\" -- Mark M. Anderson * Bookforum *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeward: A Monument to Radical Instants \/ Fredric Jameson vii\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e, volume I 1\u003cbr\u003e Glossary \/ Robert Cohen 319","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359230624087,"sku":"9780822335344","price":1129.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822335344.jpg?v=1754124051","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-aesthetics-of-resistance-volume-i-9780822335344","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}