Variations on No Theme
Jan 2027 · Faber & Faber
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Variations on No Theme was written in 1994, a few years after the reunification of Germany and shortly before Durs Grünbein won the Georg Büchner Prize, Germany's most prestigious literary award, at the age of thirty-three. These translations are by Michael Hofmann, who describes the poems as 'little essays, memories, a lexicon of modern life, autobiography in a solvent of metaphysics'. The sequence captures the dislocations and relocations of that historical moment as well as what it means, in any context, to experience abrupt discontinuity, a sudden loss of coherence and the arrival of possibilities not yet understood and demanding to be met.
Variations on No Theme was written in 1994, a few years after the reunification of Germany and shortly before Durs Grünbein won the Georg Büchner Prize, Germany's most prestigious literary award, at the age of thirty-three. These translations are by Michael Hofmann, who describes the poems as 'li...
About the author
Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in 1962, and now lives in Berlin and Rome. He has published seventeen collections of poetry, one diary, a book of prose memories and five books of essays. His work has been awarded major prizes including the Georg Büchner Prize, the Tranströmer Prize, the Zbigniew Herbert Prize and the Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry.
Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in 1962, and now lives in Berlin and Rome. He has published seventeen collections of poetry, one diary, a book of prose memories and five books of essays. His work has been awarded major prizes including the Georg Büchner Prize, the Tranströmer Prize, the Zbignie...
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