• ISBN13: 9780857427014
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publisher Imprint: Seagull
• Publication Date: May 13, 2019
• Pages: 408
• Original Price: INR 799.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 320 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Literary

Max Weber famously described politics as “a strong, slow drilling through hard boards with both passion and judgement.” taking this as his inspiration, alexander kluge brings readers yet another literary masterpiece. Drilling through hard boards 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.

Galbraith, Iain: - Iain Galbraith's volume of poetry The True Height of the Ear was published by Arc in 2018. He has won numerous prizes for his translations, including the Stephen Spender Prize, the Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize.

Hoban, Wieland: - Wieland Hoban is a British composer who has translated several works from German, including Night Music, a collection of essays by Theodor W. Adorno.

Jirgl, Reinhard: - Reinhard Jirgl was born in Berlin in 1953 and is the author of numerous novels that were censored by the GDR but published after the border between East and West Germany opened in 1989.

Kluge, Alexander: - Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement.