fleurs
An uncompromising masterpiece that transforms memory and renewal into a wild world of words. Fleursflowers, flower petalsa title that might suggest a gentle world of blooming fields and soft breezes. But in the hands of Friederike Mayrcker, one of the...
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An uncompromising masterpiece that transforms memory and renewal into a wild world of words.
Fleursflowers, flower petalsa title that might suggest a gentle world of blooming fields and soft breezes. But in the hands of Friederike Mayrcker, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this is a book of a very different kind. It is a wild, vivid journey into a rich, elemental landscape.
If you follow Mayrckers path, you find not a comfortable meadow but steep, stony grounda place where her inimitable voice rings out in all its power and purity. Unsentimental and crystal clear, Mayrckers writing is driven by a single purpose: to create images of remarkable vividness in a language as free, bold, and fresh as if it were newly invented.
The final installment of Mayrckers trilogy, following tudes and cahier, fleurs is a book of memory and renewal, prote
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