By Wolfgang Koeppen
A prophetic novel that ranks with The Tin Drum and W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants as one of many crucial works of latest ecu fiction.Wolfgang Koeppen's loss of life in Rome, within the phrases of translator Michael Hofmann, "is a finished and extraordinary provocation of a whole nation." First released in 1954 to nice controversy, it's only now being well-known as a vintage. a sad portrait of Germany after international conflict II, loss of life in Rome completes the trilogy that earned Koeppen compliment from Günter Grass in his lifetime as "the maximum residing German writer." Mirroring the social and political upheaval following the autumn of Nazism, Koeppen right here deals the tale of 4 contributors of a Germany family—a former SS officer, a tender guy getting ready for the priesthood, a composer, and a central authority administrator—reunited accidentally within the decaying great thing about postwar Rome. Koeppen re-creates the soul of a state at an important juncture of background during this devastating paintings of literary genius.
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When it employs an established vocabulary, such as that of the songbird, it revises it to describe a distinctively modernist approach. Elsewhere, it employs a vocabulary that was more peculiar to the modernist period, and which we must relearn if we are to read the poems properly. indd 28 1/27/2010 2:30:19 PM Reflexivity 29 conditions within which poetry must survive, and specifically to a sense that poetry is no longer a respected form of knowledge. While modernist self-reference is still concerned with the aesthetics of poetry, that is, with a debate about what counts as a good poem, it is also often concerned with the viability of poetry as an art form.
Once this general pattern is established, one can imagine other possible variants, and can imagine how they might strike a reader who was expecting the generic city poem. At one extreme, a poem that represented the city and its crowds not as suffocating, but as vitalizing, might stand out as unusual. Or, for a reader who expected a structure in which the oppressiveness of the city is relieved by a glimpse of something transcendent, a poem in which no special individual or moment of transcendence emerges from the crowd would be especially bleak.
In schools, poetry is often approached with the assumption that it is valuable only insofar as it is has some external referent; that is, only insofar as it is a poem about something. That something may be a physical object, as in poems about animals or the weather – Ted Hughes’s Poetry in the Making (1967) begins in this way – or it may be an abstraction such as love or mourning. The centrality of descriptive war poems to school teaching particularly reinforces this view. Reflexive poems, and poems read reflexively, are certainly “about” something, but compared to poems that depict battlefields or other external objects, they may seem limited in interest.