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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aFC _bKLU/DR
100			_aKluge,Alexander
245			_aDRILLING THROUGH HARD BOARDS : 133 Political Stories _c/Translated by Wieland Hoban
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260			_aLondon _bSeagull _c2019/01/01
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500			_aMax 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.
650			_aFiction Collection.
650			_aKluge, Alexander, - 1932- - Translations into English.
650			_aShort stories, German -- Translations into English.
650			_aShort stories, German.
650			_a133 Political Stories.
700			_aHoban, Wieland (tr.)
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