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The Devil's Blindspot

Literal translation of the original German title: The Gap Left by the Devil. In the Environs of the New Century | With illustrations
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The Devil's Blindspot / Die Lücke, die der Teufel läßt
Literal translation of the original German title: The Gap Left by the Devil. In the Environs of the New Century | With illustrations
With a collection of 500 stories, Alexander Kluge picks up the thread of his Chronicle of Feelings, which had been published in 2000. Catchphrases such as Revolution, Holocaust, World War, Chernobyl, 9/11 or the Iraq Crisis label some of the most uncanny complexes in a seemingly compact, impenetrable/overwhelming reality – and Kluge presents it in all its threatening appearance.

Sub-divided into eight chapters, Kluge's stories explore the warnings written on the...
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With a collection of 500 stories, Alexander Kluge picks up the thread of his Chronicle of Feelings, which had been published in 2000. Catchphrases such as Revolution, Holocaust, World War, Chernobyl, 9/11 or the Iraq Crisis label some of the most uncanny complexes in a seemingly compact, impenetrable/overwhelming reality – and Kluge presents it in all its threatening appearance.

Sub-divided into eight chapters, Kluge's stories explore the warnings written on the walls of the 20th century – and he proceeds in the grand coda that forms the ninth chapter to vary all the motifs and themes – and turn them around. His are stories of immense analytical power, narrated from the perspective of 2003, from a New World: the experiences of the 20th century are not conclusive.
2003, 952 pages
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Alexander Kluge, born in 1932, is the director of numerous films and countless TV broadcasts as well as an author, but: »My books are my most important work.« He has received numerous awards for his oeuvre.

Alexander Kluge, born in 1932, is the director of numerous films and countless TV broadcasts as well as an author, but: »My books are my...


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War Primer 2023
Year of Publication: 2023
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2023

»War is back.« Alexander Kluge begins his latest book with this first of six stations, prompted by a war of aggression that is initially being waged in a European setting, but...

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English world rights (Seagull)

The Book of Comments
Year of Publication: 2022
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2022
Published to mark his 90th birthday, this is perhaps Alexander Kluge’s most personal book. The Book of Comments follows hot on the heels of its playful sibling Circus /...
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English world rights (Seagull)

 

Circus / Commentary
Year of Publication: 2022
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2022
The circus has fascinated Alexander Kluge since his earliest childhood and it is a phenomenon of his devotion that is preserved throughout his cinematic work (Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel,...
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English world rights (Seagull)

 

Russia Container
Year of Publication: 2020
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2020

Not just in light of a currently contested pipeline but also after centuries of both exchange and rejection, Russia and Germany were and are as far away from each other as they are connected. The...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Russia (Garage)

World-Changing Rage
Year of Publication: 2017
Georg Baselitz, Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2017

Rage and obstinacy are closely related. In the work of Georg Baselitz and Alexander Kluge they are fundamental categories. Rage is dynamic: it can grow and suddenly erupt into flaming protests,...

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English world rights (Seagull)

Kong’s Finest Hour
Year of Publication: 2015
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2015

To dissolve theory in concrete stories has been Alexander Kluge’s lifelong approach. To him, there is music in the texture of thoughts, and so with this book, Chronicle of...

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English World rights (Seagull)
30 April 1945
Year of Publication: 2014
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2014
The thirtieth of April 1945, a Monday, was the last working day observed in the Third Reich. It is followed by a national holiday and the transfer of what remained of the state to powers which had no...
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English world rights (Seagull), France (P.O.L.), Poland (W.A.B.)

Dispatches from Moments of Calm
Year of Publication: 2013
Alexander Kluge, Gerhard RichterYear of Publication: 2013
The international artist and the most eminent chronicler of our time: 60 images by Gerhard Richter in dialogue with new texts by Alexander Kluge.

In the golden autumn of 2012...
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English world rights (Seagull), Chinese simplex rights (Beijing Imaginist Time Culture)

Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor
Year of Publication: 2013
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2013

»Alexander Kluge's work has long grappled with the Third Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center. Kluge is forever reminding us to keep...

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English world rights (Seagull), Serbia (Kulturni Centar Novog Sada)

Drilling through Hard Boards
Year of Publication: 2011
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2011
Politics, says Kluge, is an exceptional aggregate state of everyday feelings. It’s everywhere. It sets private and public biographies in motion.

It was Max Weber who said...
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English world rights (Seagull), Arabic world rights (Sefsafa)

December
Year of Publication: 2010
Alexander Kluge, Gerhard RichterYear of Publication: 2010
»In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December,...
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English world rights (Seagull), Chinese simplex rights (Beijing Imaginist Time Culture), France (Diaphanes), Turkey (Everest)

The Labyrinth of Tender Force
Year of Publication: 2009
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2009
There is no human quality that is older and more vital to survival than love. He who loves, it is said, loves with every fiber of his being. At the same time, as Bizet's Carmen proclaims, love is...
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English world rights (Seagull)

Air Raid
Year of Publication: 2008
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2008

Alexander Kluge’s account The Air Raid on Halberstadt on 8 April 1945 first appeared in 1977. Exactly twenty years later, it became one of the most important points of reference...

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English world rights (Seagull), France (Diaphanes), Italy (Meltemi), Netherlands (Cossee), Korea (Moonji), Poland (Ossolineum), Turkey (Ketebe), Israel (Pitom)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Machado)
Cinema Stories
Year of Publication: 2007
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2007

The 120 stories of this volume are literary essays told in Alexander Kluge's customary short and laconic style. At the same time, they also expose director Kluge's deep fondness for...

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Spanish rights Latin America (Caja negra), France (Diaphanes)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (L'Orma), Turkey (Lemis)
Chronicle of Feelings
Year of Publication: 2000
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2000

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Russia (NLO), France (P.O.L.)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (New Directions), Sweden (Brutus Östling)

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