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Alexander Kluge.
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Alexander Kluge's unique position in modern German literature results from his diversified background as a film producer, social commentator, lawyer, and writer of fiction. All of these elements combi...
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In the following review, Bauke describes reading Attendance List for a Funeral as a sobering and enlightening experience.
In the last five or six years German literature has made the comeback for whic...
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In the following excerpt, Lutze provides an overview of Kluge's short fiction, noting that these stories often become the basis for his cinematic work.
Perhaps the two most salient qualities th...
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In the following review, Kauffmann faults the translation of Attendance List for a Funeral.
The subject of translation is worth continual discussion, and I am especially qualified to discuss it becaus...
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In the following review of The Battle, Bauke maintains that Kluge's documentary style of fiction functions to demystify the Battle of Stalingrad and lay “bare the absurdity of that and e...
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In the following review, the critic provides a negative assessment of The Battle.
This is a reedited version of a book that created a great stir in 1964 when it was published by Walter in Olten. Since...
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In the following review, Labanyi considers the defining characteristics of Kluge's short fiction.
A wholly quixotic bid for Lebensraum by white Africa has failed, unleashing a major crisis. The...
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In the following parodic essay, Stollman uses the fictional character of Professor Noodlekopf to provide an interpretation of Mass Death in Venice.
Dr. Noodlekopf's Investigations
Having just r...
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In the following essay, Moeller offers a thematic and stylistic analysis of the stories comprising Case Histories, which has also been published under the title Attendance List for a Funeral.
Radicall...
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In the following essay, Hansen discusses Kluge's treatment of sexuality and sexual politics in his short fiction and novels.
In the United States, the critical debate on Alexander Kluge'...
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In the following essay, Pavsek elucidates the challenges of translating Kluge's short fiction.
Alexander Kluge's novella Lernprozesse mit tödlichem Ausgang was originally publishe...
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Alexander Kluge
Critical Review by Joseph Bauke
