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Heimrad Bäcker
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transcript (Austrian Literature Series) |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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172 |
| Date: |
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2010-02-16 |
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1564785653 |
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Dalkey Archive Press |
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0.55 pounds |
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5.91 x 0.59 x 8.78 inches |
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Product Description
The first of Heimrad Bäcker’s books to appear in English, transcript is an experimental Austrian writer’s literary confrontation with the Holocaust. transcript is a disturbing document. Using the techniques of concrete and visual poetry, Heimrad Bäcker presents quotations from the Holocaust’s planners, perpetrators, and victims. The book offers a startling collection of documents that confront us with details from the bureaucratic world of the Nazis and the intimate worlds they destroyed. Bäcker’s sources range from victims’ letters and medical charts to train schedules and the telephone records of Auschwitz. His transcriptions and reworkings of these sources serve as a reminder that everything about the Shoah was spoken about in great detail, from the most banal to the most monstrous. transcript shows us that the Holocaust was not “unspeakable,” but was an eminently describable and described act spoken about by thousands of people concerned with the precision and even the beauty of their language.
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