The Devil's Blind Spot: Tales from the New Century

Name: The Devil's Blind Spot: Tales from the New Century
Brand: NEW DIRECTIONS
SKU: 9780811217361-G
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By Alexander Kluge

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The 173 stories collected in Alexander Kluge's The Devil's Blind Spot range from a dozen pages to just half a page in length: these tales are like novels in pill form. The whole is arranged in five chapters. The first group illustrates the little-known virtues of the Devil; the second explores love (from Kant to the opera); the third (entitled "Sarajevo Is Everywhere") addresses power; the fourth considers the cosmos; and the fifth ranges all our "knowledge" against our feelings. Stories such as "Origin of Iraq as a Case for the Files" and "The Devil in the White House" display Alexander Kluge's special genius for making found material his own. From the wreck of the Kursk to failed love affairs to Chernobyl, Kluge alights on precise details, marching us step by step through a black comedy of the exact stages of thinking that lead to disaster. These semi-documentary stories radiate what W.G. Sebald termed "Kluge's intellectual steadfastness" as he undertakes his "archaeological excavation of the slag-heaps of our collective existence."

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 322
Release Date:: 2007-09-30
Publication Date:: 2007-09-30
Publisher:: NEW DIRECTIONS
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0811217361
Weight:: 386 g

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