German List #: "I"

German List #:
Isabel Fargo Cole, Wolfgang Hilbig
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Paperback
h203 x 127mm - 384pg
15 Sep 2019 UK
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9780857427151
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This is the perfect book for paranoid times, "I" introduces us to W, a mere hangeron in East Berlin's postmodern underground literary scene. All is not as it appears, though, as W is actually a Stasi informant who reports to the mercurial David Bowie look-alike Major Feuerbach. But are political secrets all that W is seeking in the underground labyrinth of Berlin? In fact, what W really desires are his own lost memories, the self undone by surveillance: his "I." First published in Germany in 1993 and hailed as an instant classic, "I" is a black comedy about state power and the seductions of surveillance. Its penetrating vision seems especially relevant today in our world of cameras on every train, bus, and corner. This is an engrossing read, available now for the first time in English.

"I"
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Alice in Sussex: Mahler after Lewis Carroll and H. C. Artmann
Anarchy's Brief Summer: The Life and Death of Buenaventura Durruti
Anselm Kiefer in Conversation with Klaus Dermutz
Apostoloff
Art of Diremption, The: On the Powerlessness of Art
August
Beloved of the Dawn, The
Blumenberg
Collected Poems
Correspondence
Cox: Or the Course of Time
Dark Company: A Novel in Ten Rainy Nights
Dark Ship, The
Dispatches from Moments of Calm
Drilling Through Hard Boards: 133 Political Stories
Fire Doesn't Burn
Flowers for Otello: On the Crimes That Came Out of Jena
Flying Mountain, The
For the Dying Calves: Beyond Literature: Oxford Lectures
Fury
Gone But Not Forgotten: My Favourite Flops and Other Projects that Came to Nothing
Gramsci's Fall
Great Fall, The
Holderlin: A Play in Two Acts
I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other
In Search of Lost Time: Mahler after Proust (Graphic Novel)
It All Tastes of Farewell: Diaries, 1964-1970
Jew Car, The
Killing Happiness
King of China, The
Kong's Finest Hour: A Chronicle of Connections
Loving at a Distance
Money, Money, Money!: A Short Lesson in Economics
Monsters Like Us
Night Music: Essays on Music 1928-1962
Notebooks, Volume 1, 1998-99
On Tarrying
Part of the Solution
Party Fun with Kant
Rubble Flora: Selected Poems
Sea in the Radio, The: Journal Sentences
September: Mirage
Sex of the Angels, The Saints in Their Heaven, The: A Breviary
Shadow-Boxing Woman, The
Silences of Hammerstein, The
Singers Die Twice: A Journey to the Land of Dhrupad
Squandered Advice
Starlite Terrace
Storm Still
The Fire Above, the Mountain Below
Three Plays: Philoctetes, the Horatian, Mauser
Three Plays: Rechnitz, the Merchant's Contracts, Charges (the Supplicants)
Ulysses: Mahler after Joyce
Unfinished, The
Village Indian, The
What Darkness Was
What Was Before

"[Hilbig writes as] Edgar Allan Poe could have written if he had been born in Communist East Germany." (Los Angeles Review of Books)
Wolfgang Hilbig (1941-2007) was a German writer who was awarded the Georg Buchner Prize for his life's work. Isabel Fargo Cole is an American writer and translator based in Berlin. Her translations include All the Roads Are Open, The Jew Car, and Friedrich Durrenmatt's Selected Essays, all published by Seagull Books.

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