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Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late-20th century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. Gerhard Richter is one of the most respected visual artists of Germany. His seminal works include Atlas (1964), October 18, 1977 (1988), and Eight Grey (2002). Martin Chalmers is a Berlin-based translator from Glasgow. He has translated some of the best-known German-language writers, including Herta Mu00fcller, Elfriede Jelinek and Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
"December physically ferries the reader back and forth between word
and image, prompting a search for equivalents, as well as for those
lost elements that have no equivalents. The space that December
inhabits--a winter at once ominous and intimate, the last breath of
the year in anticipation of its end and rebirth--is not unlike the
space of translation."--Madeleine LaRue "Quarterly
Conversation"
"Alexander Kluge and Gerhard Richter's December (translated by
Martin Chalmers) revives a related tradition: the calendar as
history, or the 'chronicle.' Kluge's texts--one for each day of the
month--appear opposite images of winter wastescapes by Richter,
together forming a stark, disconcerting record of a Germany frozen
if not temporally then spiritually."--Joshua Cohen "Harper's"
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