{"product_id":"9781803090412-at-the-burning-abyss","title":"At the Burning Abyss – Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eFranz Fühmann’s magnum opus.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt the Burning Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Picking up where his last book, \u003ci\u003eThe Jew Car\u003c\/i\u003e, left off, Fühmann probes his own susceptibility to ideology’s seductions—Nazism, then socialism—and examines their antidote, the goad of Trakl’s enigmatic verses. He confronts Trakl’s “unlivable life,” as his poetry transcends the panaceas of black-and-white ideology, ultimately bringing a painful, necessary understanding of “the whole human being: in victories and triumphs as in distress and defeat, in temptation and obsession, in splendor and in ordure.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1982, the German edition of \u003ci\u003eAt the Burning Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e won the West German Scholl Siblings Prize, celebrating its “courage to resist inhumanity.” At a time of political extremism and polarization, has lost none of its urgency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40391873790049,"sku":"9781803090412","price":12.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28381634.jpg?v=1722583574","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781803090412-at-the-burning-abyss","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}