Poems and Prose
by Georg Trakl
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Author: Georg TraklTranslator: Alexander Stillmark
Edition: Paperback
Audio: German (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-07
ISBN: 1870352718
Number of pages: 196
Publisher: Libris
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Book Review: Very fine, as usual.
Summary: 4 Stars
Georg Trakl, Poems and Prose (Libris, 2001)
Why is it that Georg Trakl has faded into obscurity? You'd think, given his background, he'd be considered quite the now author, despite his not having made it to the end of World War I; a brief bio that contains both incest and suicide seems as if it would certainly appeal to today's fanatical tell-all memoir crowd. Those folks who are so happy reading Running with Scissors and the spate of "boy, did I love alcohol growing up (but I'm smarter than that these days!)" books currently on the market should be getting quite the kick out of resurrecting the boy's corpse. And yet, despite the fact that this book's been out for four years, I was the first one to take it out of the library; you know how, every once in a while when you buy a hot-of-the-presses book, the pages aren't fully separated because the printing press was cutting pages too fast? Yeah. I was separating pages for most of the second half of the book.
A shame, this, because Trakl was a contemporary of the earliest surrealists, but while they've gone on to be astoundingly influential, Trakl's particular brand of seemingly-naive fantasy, constantly shadowed with death and his guilt over/obsession with his relationship with his sister, has influenced far too few. One could probably make a case for him having been in influence on the early imagists, but they never managed to infuse their work with as much emotion (let alone obsession) as can be found in Trakl. This is great stuff, well worth reading. Those who find this a bit on the large side for a single-author collection (it should be noted that it's a bilingual edition, except for the last eight pages of prose) could certainly start with, say, Autumn Sonata, but you'll eventually get round to reading this once you've figured out how good his work is. Start now, will you? ****
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