Durs Grünbein

The series offers lively, comprehensive accounts of contemporary German culture written by experts and designed for advanced student readers and scholars alike. Both in monographs and closely-defined edited collections, it aims to introduce major authors, thinkers, filmmakers, literary topics, genres and landmark individual works, focusing on the period since 1989 but reaching back, where appropriate, to the vital hinterland of the 1970s.

Durs Grünbein is the most significant poet and essayist in German today. No other modern German poet has written from such an emphatically European and global perspective, and this volume seeks to present the poet and his work to the English-speaking world in all their significance and breadth. Written by a line-up of international scholars and critics, the volume offers highly readable and wide-ranging essays on Grünbein's substantial uvre, complemented by specially commissioned material and an interview with the poet. It covers the German and European traditions, and engages with Grünbein's works in the context of a number of relevant topics, such as 'memory', 'urban life', 'mortality', 'love', and 'presence'; it also probes Grünbein's sustained dialogue with the natural sciences and the visual arts.

Auteur

Michael Eskin, Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc., USA; KarenLeeder, University of Oxford, UK; ChristopherYoung, University ofCambridge, UK.

Résumé

"One of the many strengths of this Companion [...] is a due regard both for the historical context and for the particularity of Grünbein's oeuvre."
Ben Hutchinson in: TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, 17. Januar 2014