The Hour That Breaks: Gottfried Benn: A Biography

by Martin Travers

Overview

This is the first biography in English of the major German poet Gottfried Benn (1886-1956). The book focuses both on the key events of Benn's personal and public life, and on his development as a poet. There are detailed discussions of many of his poems, a number of which are translated here for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034310987
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	07/08/2015
Pages:	516
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Martin Travers was eduated at the universities of East Anglia, Tübingen, and Cambridge. He has published widely in the area of German and European literature. He is the author of Text and Selfhood: The Poetry of Gottfried Benn (Peter Lang, 2007).

Table of Contents

Contents: Life: A Provocation to Transcendence – A Garden East of the Oder: 1886-1912 – «A Troop of Vagabond Sons did Cry»: Gottfried Benn and Expressionism: 1912-1914 – Art by other Means: Benn at War: 1914-1917 – «Moi haïssable»: The Late Self: 1917-1930 – A Public Voice: 1930-1933 – The Crisis of the Spirit: 1933-1934 – Into the Night: Inner Emigration: 1935-1945 – Selah, the Psalm is Ended: 1945-1956 – Gottfried Benn: Chronology, 1886-1956.