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Image for Investigation: About my Father

Image for Investigation: About my Father

Meckel, Christoph
Jones, Stan
Winch, Ben

Paperback

Literary Figures

ISBN10: 9810967624
ISBN13: 9789810967628
Publisher: Verbivoraciouspress
Published: Mar 15 2016
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Image for Investigation: About my Father is Christoph Meckel's celebrated work of memoir or father-biography in the mould of Paul Kersten's Der alltägliche Tod meines Vaters and Ruth Rehmann's Der Mann auf der Kanzel. The book is an act of need, personal and political: an attempt, by the son of a former German officer in the Second World War, to account not merely for his father's actions but for the actions of a generation. His compassion, his dexterity with the knife, his lack of sentiment when sentiment would only slow his hand, his seeing around his subject, his willingness (an artist's) to explore--these traits make Image an uncommon work of its kind. Meckel's language is unsparing, torn from a heart shut tight and wounded by love. This edition revises Stan Jones's original translation, and includes a new introduction by Ben Winch.

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