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IMAGE FOR INVESTIGATION IBD

CHRISTOPH MECKEL / STAN JONES
VERBIVORACIOUSPRESS
03 / 2016
9789810967628
Anglès

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Image for Investigation: About my Father is Christoph Meckel&rsquo,s celebrated work of memoir or &ldquo,father-biography&rdquo, in the mould of Paul Kersten&rsquo,s Der alltägliche Tod meines Vaters and Ruth Rehmann&rsquo,s Der Mann auf der Kanzel. The book is an act of need, personal and political: an attempt, by the son of a former German officer in the Second World War, to account not merely for his father&rsquo,s actions but for the actions of a generation. His compassion, his dexterity with the knife, his lack of sentiment when sentiment would only slow his hand, his seeing around his subject, his willingness (an artist&rsquo,s) to explore&mdash,these traits make Image an uncommon work of its kind. Meckel&rsquo,s language is unsparing, torn from a heart shut tight and wounded by love. This edition revises Stan Jones&rsquo,s original translation, and includes a new introduction by Ben Winch. &ldquo,Ironically, the portrait which is more believable is not that of E. Meckel but of the author himself, who inadvertantly appears in the role of a judgemental, petulant and vindictive son, out to even with his father for the many unjust punishments he had suffered at the latter&rsquo,s hands.&rdquo, &mdash, Anest Andrea, World Literature Today &ldquo,A chapter of family history, which is not unique and not purely private but representative and political through-and through.á . . . A sensitive officer, who would rather have sat at his writer&rsquo,s desk and yet enjoyed command, a father, who would rather have been the dad-at-play and yet claims the position of head of the family in all circumstances and sees correction as his duty: the images fit together exactly.&rdquo, &mdash, Elsbeth Pulve, Schweizerische Monatshefte

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