Alexander Kluge

• May-1991
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1996
• / Science Fiction
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Fiction writer, internationally known filmmaker, critical theorist, Alexander Kluge is perhaps postwar Germany’s most prolific and diverse intellectual. With this translation of Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome, a novella first published in...

• Aug-1996
• / Science Fiction
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Fiction writer, internationally known filmmaker, critical theorist, Alexander Kluge is perhaps postwar Germany’s most prolific and diverse intellectual. With this translation of Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome, a novella first published in...

• Nov-2004
• / General Fiction
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Scathingly clever short stories. Includes "The Devil in the White House" and "The Development of Iraq as a Case for the Files." At once a genuine story-teller and a literary documentarian, Alexander Kluge's genius lies in the very special way he make...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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Each of the thirty-nine tales of Alexander Kluge's Cinema Stories combines fact and fiction, and they revolve around movie-making. The book compresses a lifetime of feeling, thought, and practice: Kluge―considered the father of New German Cinema―...

• Jun-2012
• / General Fiction
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In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept ...

• Nov-2014
• / Literary
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On April 8, 1945, several American bomber squadrons were informed that their German targets were temporarily unavailable due to cloud cover. As it was too late to turn back, the assembled ordnance of more than two hundred bombers was diverted to ...

• Oct-2015
• / General Fiction
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April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday and then a series of transfers of power, April 30 was a day filled with contradictions and bewildering events that would forever define global ...

• Jun-2016
• / General Fiction
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On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt published its daily issue -- but things looked . . . different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they’re read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, ext...

• Oct-2016
• / General Fiction
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April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday and then a series of transfers of power, April 30 was a day filled with contradictions and bewildering events that would forever define global ...

• Mar-2017
• / General Fiction
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In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept ...

• Jul-2017
• / Literary
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Max Weber famously described politics as “a strong, slow drilling through hard boards with both passion and judgment.” Taking this as his inspiration, Alexander Kluge brings readers yet another literary masterpiece. Drilling through Hard Boards...

• Jan-2018
• / Literary
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Revolving around the opera, these tales are an “archaeological excavation of the slag-heaps of our collective existence” (W. G. Sebald) Combining fact and fiction, each of the one hundred and two tales of Alexander Kluge’s Temple of the Scapego...

• Dec-2020
• / General Fiction
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A book about bitter fates -- both already known and yet to unfold -- and the many kinds of organized machinery built to destroy people.Alexander Kluge’s work has long grappled with the Third Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jew...

• Jul-2021
• / General Fiction
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In a world full of devils, the giant ape Kong defends what he loves the most. But who and what is this undomesticated animal? Might it reside within us? As we tread confidently, is this where the earth opens up beneath us?In Kong’s Finest Hour, Ale...

• Dec-2022
• / General Fiction
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An intellectually stimulating yet accessible collection of short vignettes on Russia and Germany by Alexander Kluge. Not just in light of a contested pipeline during the war in Ukraine but also after centuries of both exchange and rejection, Rus...

• Apr-2023
• / Literary
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A highly readable and lighthearted, yet intellectual-stimulating exploration of the modern human condition.   This volume concerns itself with the question of time, from the description of a brief fragment passing by in a matter of minutes to st...

• Oct-2023
• / General Fiction
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A highly engaging exploration of existential questions, written in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic.  The Book of Commentary / Unquiet Garden of the Soul confronts the reader with questions of existential meaning, questions rendered all the...

• Jun-2024
• / Literary
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Alexander Kluge explores the madcap, multifaceted world of the circus through a global geopolitical lens. The circus has fascinated Alexander Kluge ever since he was a child, and his devotion to it has been preserved throughout his cinematic output a...

• Aug-2024
• / General Fiction
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A profound exploration of the enduring impact of war in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “War is back again.” So begins Alexander Kluge’s latest book, prompted by a war of aggression that, though being waged in Europe, i...