Hitler: A Biography

IF 0.2 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
A. Lauer
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its advantages, though in the case of Heinrich von Kleist: The Biography, two features will likely lead to widespread resonance: the pattern of delivering the sparse biographical documents in all of their ambivalence before linking them to Kleist’s literary and essayistic works, and the fact that it is the only comprehensive Kleist biography currently available in English. Based on the sources alone, Kleist’s biography is one of the more fascinating in literary history, and Blamberger’s presentation is thorough, informed, enlightening, and expertly constructed. Embracing, rather than reducing, Kleist’s ambiguity from the outset, Blamberger mirrors how Kleist blurs the line between poetry and truth (22), and revisits the phenomenon throughout, describing Kleist’s fusion of autobiography and works of fiction as a tendency not only to “fictionalize his life” (98), but to infuse his works with (near-death) experiences illustrative of how contingency and chance inform life and death, be they evidently real (a hair-raising carriage flip caused by a braying donkey in Butzbach in 1801 (1, 125–26, 156–57), or be they most certainly embellished or further imagined (the near capsize of his boat from Koblenz to Cologne in a storm, 125–26). Through his leitmotivistic invocations of terms such as the “project-maker” (43–45, 47–49, 65, 132, 135, 142, 357) and “an economy of sacrifice” (91, 392, 394, 406, 407) as emblematic of Kleist’s life and creativity, Blamberger embeds Kleist’s artistic works and equally creatively staged death in a “kaleidoscopic” (65, 246, 427) life-narrative held together by a succession of productive distractions— the tumultuous legacy of an artist whose experiments set the tone for artistic projects of the future and sealed his fate as a “model for posterity” (5, 44). The repetition of full names, locations, institutions, concepts, and even citations throughout serves to ensure that the individual chapters function both as stand-alone resources and as coherent parts of a whole. Finally, the foremost accomplishment of the translators lies in the fact that the volume almost never reads like a translation.
希特勒传记
《海因里希·冯·克莱斯特传》的两个特点可能会引起广泛的共鸣:一是在将其与克莱斯特的文学和散文性作品联系起来之前,提供了稀疏的传记文件,其中充满了矛盾的心理;二是这是目前唯一一本完整的克莱斯特英文传记。仅从资料来看,克莱斯特的传记是文学史上最引人入胜的传记之一,而布兰伯格的介绍则是彻底的、见多识广的、有启发性的,并且是专业的。Blamberger从一开始就接受而不是减少克莱斯特的模糊性,反映了克莱斯特如何模糊诗歌与真理之间的界限(22),并从头到尾重新审视了这一现象,将克莱斯特的自传和小说作品融合为一种趋势,不仅是“虚构他的生活”(98),而且在他的作品中注入(濒死)经历,说明偶然性和机会如何影响生死。它们可能是真实的(1801年在布兹巴赫,一头驴的叫声引起了令人毛骨悚然的马车翻车),或者它们肯定是经过修饰的,或者是进一步的想象(他从科布伦茨到科隆的船在暴风雨中几乎倾覆,125-26)。通过他对“项目制造者”(43-45、47-49、65、132、135、142、357)和“牺牲的经济”(91、392、394、406、407)等术语的主动机性引用,布兰伯格将克莱斯特的艺术作品和同样富有创造性的死亡嵌入到一个“万花筒”中(65、246;427)他的人生叙事由一系列富有生产力的干扰拼凑在一起——这是一位艺术家的喧嚣遗产,他的实验为未来的艺术项目定下了基调,并确定了他作为“后代榜样”的命运(5,44)。全称、地点、机构、概念、甚至引文的重复贯穿全书,以确保各个章节既能作为独立的资源,又能作为整体的连贯部分。最后,译者们最重要的成就在于,这本书读起来几乎不像译本。
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European Legacy-Toward New Paradigms
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