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The Aesthetics of Resistance: Volume 1 by Peter Weiss, Peter Weiss, Joachim Neugroschel, Fredric Jameson, Robert Cohen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Aesthetics of Resistance: Volume 1 about?
A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. Spanning the period from the late 1930s to World War II, this historical novel dramatizes anti-fascist resistance and the rise and fall of proletarian political parties in Europe. Living in Berlin in 1937, the unnamed narrator and his peers—sixteen- and seventeen-year-old working-class students—seek ways to express their hatred for the Nazi regime. They meet in museums and galleries, and in their discussions they explore the affinity between political resistance and art, the connection at the heart of Weiss’s novel. Weiss suggests that meaning lies in embracing resistance, no matter how intense the oppression, and that we must look to art for new models of political action and social understanding. The novel includes extended meditations on paintings, sculpture, and literature. Moving from the Berlin underground to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War and on to other parts of Europe, the story teems with characters, almost all of whom are based on historical figures. The Aesthetics o
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- Author
- Peter Weiss, Peter Weiss, Joachim Neugroschel, Fredric Jameson, Robert Cohen
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781283109123
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction