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The Notes: Or on Non-Premature Reconciliation

The Notes: Or on Non-Premature Reconciliation

Hohl, Ludwig
Lewis, Tess
Cohen, Joshua

Hardcover

Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters

PhilosophyLetters & Essays

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ISBN10: 0300220057
ISBN13: 9780300220056
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Oct 19 2021
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.01
Height: 1.34 Width: 5.04 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
A collection of illuminating observations on life and art, from an acclaimed Swiss modernist

[Tess Lewis's] translation is worthy of her willfully demanding subject, leaping between what Hohl calls the 'incandescence' of the aphorism and, in his dream narratives and miniature fairy tales, a shadowy beauty reminiscent of his better-known compatriot Robert Walser.--Max Norman, Wall Street Journal

The Notes should be celebrated: it is wonderful that this volume of [Hohl's] compact, aphoristic observations has finally arrived in English.--Alexandra Sattler, Arts Fuse

Revered by Bertolt Brecht and Max Frisch as one of Switzerland's most commanding writers, Ludwig Hohl spent most of his waking hours with a pen in hand, collecting quotes from others and recording ruminations of his own. Composed between 1934 and 1936 during his residence in the Netherlands in a state of extreme spiritual desolation, The Notes is Hohl's magnum opus: an assemblage of his epiphany-like observations, disparate in subject yet threaded together by a relentless exploration of the nature and origins of creativity.

Inspired by Spinoza, Goethe, and many others, The Notes contends with the purpose of work, the vitality of art, and the inevitability of death--a valiant, uncompromising exercise in hope against the devastating backdrop of twentieth-century Europe. This abridged edition, expertly translated by Tess Lewis and with an illuminating foreword by Joshua Cohen, introduces the reader to this remarkable work and its writer.

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