黑料正能量

黑料正能量 THE BOOK:
A major literary event, the publication of the final volume of Peter Weiss鈥檚 three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. Weiss鈥檚 crowning achievement, The Aesthetics of Resistance spans the period from the late 1930s to the end of World War II, dramatizing antifascist resistance and the rise and fall of proletarian political parties in Europe.

Volume III, initially published in 1981, teems with characters, many of whom are based on historical figures. It commences in May of 1940, as the narrator鈥檚 parents flee Nazi forces in Eastern Europe and reunite with their son in Sweden. While in Stockholm, the narrator and other Communist activists living in exile struggle to build structures in the German underground. The story then follows Communist resistance fighter Charlotte Bischoff as she is smuggled to Bremen on a freighter. In Berlin, she contacts the narrator鈥檚 friends and joins the Red Orchestra resistance group. Soon, the Gestapo cracks the underground group鈥檚 code, arrests a number of its members, and takes them to Pl枚tzensee Prison, where most of them are executed. Featuring the narrator鈥檚 meditations on paintings, sculpture, and literature throughout, The Aesthetics of Resistance demonstrates the affinity between political resistance and art. Ultimately, Weiss argues that we must look to art for new models of political action and social understanding.

BIOS:
Joel Scott is a poet and translator from Sydney, Australia with a PhD in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies from Macquarie University. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Bildverbot and Diary Farm. His translation of the second volume of Peter Weiss鈥檚 magnum opus Die 脛sthetik des Widerstands was published by Duke University Press in 2020, and received an honourable mention in the 2020 Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work.

Charlotte Thie脽en grew up in Portugal and lives as a poet and translator in Berlin. Between 2015 and 2022, as a member of artiCHOKE, she organized the reading and publication series of the same name for committed contemporary poetry. Her first chapbook "In This" was printed in 2016. In 2019, "Fragments of Baby" was published by Materialien (Munich). She is currently working on "M眉nzenfresser", a series of poems about time, body, reproductive labor, desire and shifts in perception.