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Northern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in political life of the twentieth century. Enjoying wide-ranging support among both the urban and rural working class, its importance peaked during its »brief summer« — the civil war between the Republic and General Franco’s Falangists, during which anarchists even participated in the government of Catalonia.
Anarchy’s Brief Summer brings anarchism to life by focusing on the...
Northern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in political life of the twentieth century. Enjoying wide-ranging support among both the urban and rural working class, its importance peaked during its »brief summer« — the civil war between the Republic and General Franco’s Falangists, during which anarchists even participated in the government of Catalonia.
Anarchy’s Brief Summer brings anarchism to life by focusing on the charismatic leader Buenaventura Durruti (1896–1936), who became a key figure in the Spanish Civil War after a militant and adventurous youth. The basis of the book is a compilation of texts: personal testimony, interviews with survivors, contemporary documents, memoirs, and academic assessments. They are all linked by Enzenberger’s own assessment in a series of glosses — a literary form that is somewhere between retelling and reconstruction — with the contradiction between fiction and fact reflecting the political contradictions of the Spanish Revolution. On the trail of forgotten, half-suppressed struggles, Anarchy’s Brief Summer offers a unique portrait of a revolutionary movement that is largely unknown outside Spain.
»Anarchy's Brief Summer is one of greatest novels I've ever read.« Daniel Alarcon
»The previously unpublished interviews with old anarchists are extraordinarily valuable, as are the extracts from the memoir of the rural priest Jesús Arnal, whom Durruti saved from the firing squad, a common fate for imprisoned priests at the time, and who became Durruti’s secretary.« Walter Haubrich, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»Enzensberger offers us an enthralling and electrifying read ... His position on the revolution is clear. It raises many questions beyond those directly addressed by the book, but without claiming to offer any definitive answers. Anarchy’s Brief Summer can only be one of many possible responses.« D. Rasch, Neue Cuxhavener Zeitung
»The debate over whether this book is a novel or not is moot: it is a much more substantial and exciting read than any book labelled »novel« today .... It is not compiled by a man who is interested only in himself, but by an author who, through fortunate circumstances, came into possession of material from this period, and who knew how to make use of it.« Frankfurter Rundschau
»Anarchy's Brief Summer is one of greatest novels I've ever read.« Daniel Alarcon
»The previously unpublished interviews with old anarchists are extraordinarily valuable, as are the extracts from the memoir of the rural priest Jesús Arnal, whom Durruti saved from the firing squad, a common fate for imprisoned priests at the time, and who became...
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in Kaufbeuren in 1929. He died on November 24, 2022, aged 93, in Munich. As a poet, essayist, writer, biographer, editor and translator, he was one of the world’s most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in Kaufbeuren in 1929. He died on November 24, 2022, aged 93, in Munich. As a poet, essayist, writer,...
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Babel
Babel! A word seemingly born from chaos in its alliterating, rolling urgency. The poet pulls several examples of how deception and self-deceit, misjudgements and failing routines determine...
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Windfalls
»How’s the confidence of the financial astrologers doing? What does the gibberish of the daily papers tell us? How much reality is contained in the mythical models of contemporary physics and cosmology? Towards which ultimate goal is our contemporaries’ pathological mobility drifting? What is the ubiquitous craze for abbreviations hiding? And down which garden path are the fine arts trying to...
Poems 1950-2020
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An Expert Review in 89 Numbers
Nature has treated people somewhat like a stepmother would. Other animals are stronger, can swim and fly better, give birth less awkwardly and do not need as much time to become adults. How can it be then that this weak creature came to be the strongest on earth? The answer, if you believe the author, has to do with the division of labour. Thanks to this trick every one of us, he believes,...
»Write down everything that is true«
The hitherto unpublished and unknown correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Hans Magnus Enzensberger allows one to relive how, after the Second World War, two of the most prominent writers in the German language chose to depict and regard the world, literature and the publishing industry, but also how they wished to present and be regarded themselves.
One was...
A Handful of Anecdotes
»It is hard to shake off one’s date of birth. M. drags his around with him, too.« The first twenty years of life are baggage that a person is forever stuck with. But...
Spanish world rights (Anagrama), France (Gallimard), Serbia (Laguna)
Survival Artists
The 20th century was the heyday of writers who had survived state terror and purges with all the ethical and political ambivalences that this entailed. How did they manage to do that? Were they...
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Money, Money, Money!
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Tumult
In 1963 the author took his first trip to Russia and unexpectedly became a guest at Khrushchev's dacha in Gagra. The result was a detailed portrait of the man and the Soviet »Thaw«...
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Gone!
Mr Zed's Reflections
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Panopticon
In his new book, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, the master of the political and literary essay, discloses information about matters big and small, daily and commonplace themes, astounding his readers...
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Brussel, the Gentle Monster or the Disenfranchisement of Europe
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Album
»This is not a diary«, as it states at the very beginning of the book.
So what is it then? A jumble, a jotter, a...
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My Favourite Flops, Followed by a Wealth of Ideas
Russia (selection; Obedinennoe)
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Skirmishes and Scholia
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»for means of brutal communication«
In 1959, just after Uwe Johnson’s relocation to West berlin and the publication of his debut novel Speculations About Jakob, the correspondence and friendship between Johnson and Hans Magnus Enzensberger commences. Over the course of eight years they communicate about the situation of literature and politics and discuss the scopes of political activism. At the same time,...
Fatal Numbers
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Hammerstein or Idiosyncrasy
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The Labyrinth of Intelligence
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Terror's Men
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Josefine and I
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Dialogues between the Immortals, the Living and the Dead
The famous philosopher Zhuangzi is having an argument with a man who has been dead for 500 years. Diderot receives an obtrusive reporter from the 20th century for an interview. An ageing...
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A History of Clouds
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The Elixirs of Science
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Lighter than Air
»As well as being Germany's most important poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. […]...
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Zig Zag
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Kiosk
The kiosk around the corner – outside, it has a lot on offer. Inside, in the semi-darkness, sits a man or a woman, but what they are thinking is a different story altogether. In the...
Russia (selection; Obedinennoe), Serbia (selection; Akademska Knjiga), Greece (selection; Panoptikon)
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Civil Wars
»In Civil Wars, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Germany’s most astute literary and political critic, chronicles the global changes taking place as the result of evolving notions of...
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The Great Migration
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Zukunftsmusik
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Mediocrity & Delusion
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Europe, Europe
»In this highly acclaimed and entertaining book, already »among the touchstones of the new travel writing« (Newsweek), one of [...] Germany’s leading...
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Political Crumbs
»How many more times do I have to tell you: There is no art without pleasure«, Enzensberger once claimed in one of his poems. That is a maxim he acts on in this book as...
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Mausoleum
The thirty-seven ballads deal with the contraditictions of »progress«, with a process, therefore, that has been going on for centuries, whose tragic and comedic, awe-inspiring and absurd...
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The Sinking of the Titanic
A comdey. A comedy? Enzensberger‘s play is an epic poem in thirty-three cantos about the story that is as gripping now as it was back then. The catastophe that happened in 1912 is documented and...
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Particulars
The essays of this collection dispel the legend that thoughts had nothing to do with the world from whence they came. Enzensberger analyses a production process: the creation not of...
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Politics and Crime
Enzensberger presents his attempts at revising the conception of justice and rights violations, of nation, sovereignty, obedience and betrayal. They are attempts at exposing the criminal element...
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Defence of Wolves
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