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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780857427014 |
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
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Purchased |
Note |
Prism Books,Kadavanthra |
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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KLU/DR |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Kluge,Alexander |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
DRILLING THROUGH HARD BOARDS : 133 Political Stories |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
/Translated by Wieland Hoban |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
1 |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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London |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Seagull |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2019/01/01 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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349 |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
Max Weber famously described politics as “a strong, slow drilling through hard boards with both passion and judgment.” Taking this as his inspiration, Alexander Kluge brings readers yet another literary masterpiece. Drilling through Hard Boards is a kaleidoscopic meditation on the tools available to those who struggle for power. Weber’s metaphorical drill certainly embodies intelligent tenacity as a precondition for political change. But what is a hammer in the business of politics, Kluge wonders, and what is a subtle touch? Eventually, we learn that all questions of politics lead to a single one: what is political in the first place? In the book, Kluge masterfully unspools more than one hundred vignettes, through which it becomes clear that the political is more often than not personal. Politics are everywhere in our everyday lives, so along with the stories of major political figures, we also find here the small, mostly unknown ones: Elfriede Eilers alongside Pericles, Chilean miners next to Napoleon, a three-month-old baby beside Alexander the Great. Drilling through Hard Boards is not just Kluge’s newest fiction, it is a masterpiece of political thought.<br/> |
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Fiction Collection. |
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Kluge, Alexander, - 1932- - Translations into English. |
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Short stories, German -- Translations into English. |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Short stories, German. |
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133 Political Stories. |
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Hoban, Wieland (tr.) |
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Lending |
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