{"product_id":"at-the-burning-abyss-experiencing-the-georg-trakl-poem-9781803090412","title":"At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem","description":"\u003cb\u003eFranz Fühmann's magnum opus.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seagull Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803090412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.03h x 5.12w x 0.64d","brand":"Franz F\u0026#252;hmann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370526150837,"sku":"9781803090412","price":12.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_097fe8a0-53ce-4fae-b002-a8ccb9ca0b85.jpg?v=1663039561","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/at-the-burning-abyss-experiencing-the-georg-trakl-poem-9781803090412","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}