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Well-Kept Ruins
Buch von Beverley Bie Brahic (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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A genre-defying book from one of France's most well-known philosopher-writers. In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of Osnabrück. This is where, in 1648, the Peace of Westphalia was signed, bringing the Thirty Years' War and one of the most calamitous periods of European history to an end. But the city was later to witness another calamity. Today, as one walks through Old Synagogue Street in a rich neighborhood of Osnabrück, one might miss noticing a pile of pale stones held together by chicken wire that sits between two fashionable homes. These are the well-kept ruins from behind which stares a gaping space-a place of memory and oblivion. Four polished plaques tell the tale of the horror-filled night of November 9, 1938-today known as Kristallnacht-when the synagogue that had stood on this spot was desecrated, looted, set on fire, and eventually demolished by Hitler's forces. On the same day, ninety parishioners were imprisoned by the Gestapo and eventually sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Osnabrück was also home to Eve Klein, a member of the city's early-twentieth-century Jewish community and the mother of author Hélène Cixous. In Well-Kept Ruins, Cixous returns to the historic city in 2019 and reflects on the remains of the synagogue that "express the life lost, the life kept." Walking the streets of the city, plumbing the depths of the past along with her own family's history, looking deep into the future, and punctuating her poetic prose with haunting photographs, Cixous explores the ruins at the heart of humanity. Part memoir, part philosophical meditation, Well-Kept Ruins is a genre-defying and timely reflection of the contemporary human condition.
A genre-defying book from one of France's most well-known philosopher-writers. In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of Osnabrück. This is where, in 1648, the Peace of Westphalia was signed, bringing the Thirty Years' War and one of the most calamitous periods of European history to an end. But the city was later to witness another calamity. Today, as one walks through Old Synagogue Street in a rich neighborhood of Osnabrück, one might miss noticing a pile of pale stones held together by chicken wire that sits between two fashionable homes. These are the well-kept ruins from behind which stares a gaping space-a place of memory and oblivion. Four polished plaques tell the tale of the horror-filled night of November 9, 1938-today known as Kristallnacht-when the synagogue that had stood on this spot was desecrated, looted, set on fire, and eventually demolished by Hitler's forces. On the same day, ninety parishioners were imprisoned by the Gestapo and eventually sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Osnabrück was also home to Eve Klein, a member of the city's early-twentieth-century Jewish community and the mother of author Hélène Cixous. In Well-Kept Ruins, Cixous returns to the historic city in 2019 and reflects on the remains of the synagogue that "express the life lost, the life kept." Walking the streets of the city, plumbing the depths of the past along with her own family's history, looking deep into the future, and punctuating her poetic prose with haunting photographs, Cixous explores the ruins at the heart of humanity. Part memoir, part philosophical meditation, Well-Kept Ruins is a genre-defying and timely reflection of the contemporary human condition.
Über den Autor
Hélène Cixous is emeritus professor of literature at the Université Paris VIII, where she founded and directed the Centre de recherches en études féminines. She is the author of more than seventy works of fiction, plays, and collections of critical essays. Beverley Bie Brahic is the author of four poetry collections of poetry. She is an award-winning Canadian translator living in Paris and Palo Alto.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781803090597
ISBN-10: 1803090596
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Brahic, Beverley Bie
Cixous, Helene
Übersetzung: Brahic, Beverley Bie
Hersteller: Seagull Books London Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 231 x 153 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Beverley Bie Brahic (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.2023
Gewicht: 0,37 kg
Artikel-ID: 123854119
Über den Autor
Hélène Cixous is emeritus professor of literature at the Université Paris VIII, where she founded and directed the Centre de recherches en études féminines. She is the author of more than seventy works of fiction, plays, and collections of critical essays. Beverley Bie Brahic is the author of four poetry collections of poetry. She is an award-winning Canadian translator living in Paris and Palo Alto.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781803090597
ISBN-10: 1803090596
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Brahic, Beverley Bie
Cixous, Helene
Übersetzung: Brahic, Beverley Bie
Hersteller: Seagull Books London Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 231 x 153 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Beverley Bie Brahic (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.2023
Gewicht: 0,37 kg
Artikel-ID: 123854119
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