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dc.contributor.authorTravers, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-12T01:30:39Z
dc.date.available2018-10-12T01:30:39Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.isbn9783035108521
dc.identifier.doi10.3726/978-3-0351-0852-1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/141143
dc.description.abstractThe Hour That Breaks is the first biography of Gottfried Benn to appear in English. The author of this study charts in impressive detail the complex paths of Benn’s life, through the demands of his medical practice and military involvement in two world wars, his brief political advocacy of Hitler and Nazism in 1933, to his final «comeback» in post Second World War Germany. The author also engages with Benn’s extensive body of poetry which, inventive, challenging and formally wrought, was the product of mind that was both radical and conservative. The same propensity to invention and transformation also informed Benn’s personal and professional life, giving rise to a practice of role-playing and dissimulation that the poet termed a «double life». As Travers shows in this well-written and informative biography, this was a strategy of survival of which Benn, ultimately, was as much the victim as the master. This biography also offers fresh translations of many of Benn’s poems, a number of which appear here in English for the first time.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.publisherPeter Lang AG
dc.publisher.placeGermany
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical Studies not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode210399
dc.titleThe Hour That Breaks: Gottfried Benn - A Biography
dc.typeBook
dc.type.descriptionA1 - Books
dc.type.codeA - Books
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
gro.rights.copyright© 2015 Peter Lang AG. This is a Accepted Manuscript that has been published in The Hour That Breaks: Gottfried Benn - A Biography by Martin Travers. The original work can be found at https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0351-0852-1
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gro.griffith.authorTravers, Martin P.


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