portada The Diary of Kaspar Hauser (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Febbraro Paolo

Traducido por

Molino Anthony

Editorial

Negative Capability Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

110

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x1 cm

Peso

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9780998677705

Categorías

Europa
Poesía

The Diary of Kaspar Hauser (en Inglés)

Febbraro Paolo (Autor) · Molino Anthony (Traducido por) · Negative Capability Press · Tapa Dura

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This intriguing gem of a book is a direct, germinal expression of the authorís longstanding fascination with the figure of the Idiot in Western literature. Part notebook, part ethical treatise, part fantasized autobiography, The Diary of Kaspar Hauser is a striking collection of forty or so haiku-like compositions, diary entries imagined to have been penned by the "idiot" Kaspar Hauser and discovered, by chance, after his death by brutal murder, among the papers of his patron, Franz Paul Webern. (Franz is Kasparís interlocutor throughout the poems.) This hyperpoetic component of the book - inspired by Werner Herzogís masterful film - is sandwiched between two essays: the first, an Introduction recounting the remarkable discovery and history of the fabled manuscript; the second, comprising a one-page Epilogue (which details the death of Kaspar) along with a letter in the form of an Appendix by a fictional, highly cultured, Borges-like literary critic who converses with the eponymous "Febbraro" about his startling, dreamlike find. The book has all the characteristics - concision of language, fanciful flights of fiction and criticism in concentrated poetic form, sparse elements of theatrical dialogue, a fierce philosophical underpinning - to make for an "ancient novelty" of sorts: a daring book that surprises and forces us to rethink what we think we already know.