The Beloved of the Dawn

By:

Franz Fuhmann

Format:

Hardback

Series:

The German List

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Four classical Greek myths retold with unexpected twists by an East German dissident. Franz Fühmann’s subversive retellings of four Greek legends were first published in East Germany in 1980. In them, Fühmann plumbs the ancient tales’ depths and makes them his own. Attuned to conflict and paradox, he sheds light on the complexities of sex and love, art and beauty, politics and power. In the title story, the love of the goddess Eos for the mortal Tithonos reveals the blessing and curse of transience, while “Hera and Zeus” probes the divine couple’s tumultuous relationship and its devastating consequences for a world embroiled in war. Fühmann’s unflinching account of Marsyas’ flaying by Apollo has been widely read as a dissident political statement that has lost none of its incisive force. At times charged with sensuality, and at others honed to a keen analytical edge, Fühmann’s shimmering prose is matched by Sunandini Banerjee’s exquisite collages.

Author Biography:

Franz Fühmann (1922–1984) was one of modern Germany’s most fascinating literary figures and the author of dozens of novels, short stories, essays, poems, ballets, and children's books. Isabel Fargo Cole is a United States-born, Berlin-based writer and translator. She is the initiator and coeditor of No Man's Land, an online magazine for new German literature in English.

Release date Australia

June 9th, 2022

Author

Franz Fuhmann

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Illustrated by Sunandini Banerjee
Translated by Isabel Fargo Cole

Illustrations

5 color plates

Pages

Series

The German List

ISBN-13

9780857429001

Product ID

35172337

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