The sleep of the righteous / Wolfgang Hilbig ; translated by Isabel Fargo Cole.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Two Lines Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 163 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1931883475
- 9781931883474
- Schlaf der Gerechten. English
- Hilbig, Wolfgang, 1941-2007. Place of storms
- Hilbig, Wolfgang, 1941-2007. Bottles in the cellar
- Hilbig, Wolfgang, 1941-2007. Coming
- Hilbig, Wolfgang, 1941-2007. Sleep of the righteous
- Hilbig, Wolfgang, 1941-2007. Afternoon
- Hilbig, Wolfgang, 1941-2007. Memories
- Hilbig, Wolfgang, 1941-2007. Dark man
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Doppelgängers, a murderer's guilt, pulp noir, fanatical police, and impossible romances--these are the pieces from which German master Wolfgang Hilbig builds a divided nation battling its demons. Delving deep into the psyches of both East and West Germany, The Sleep of the Righteous reveals a powerful, apocalyptic account of the century-defining nation's trajectory from 1945 to 1989. From a youth in a war-scarred industrial town to wearying labor as a factory stoker, surreal confrontations with the Stasi, and, finally, a conflicted escape to the West, Hilbig creates a cipher that is at once himself and so many of his fellow Germans. Evoking the eerie bleakness of films like Tarkovsky's Stalker and The Lives of Others, this titan of German letters combines the Romanticism of Poe with the absurdity of Kafka to create a visionary, somber statement on the ravages of history and the promises of the future.
Originally published: Der Schlaf der Gerechten. Frankfurt am Maim : S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, ©2002.
The place of storms -- The bottles in the cellar -- Coming -- The sleep of the righteous -- The afternoon -- The memories -- The dark man.
Translated from the German.