Name: Durs Grünbein — AROMA
SKU: 20382
Price: 100.00 DKK
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Durs Grünbein — AROMA

100,00 kr.

“One of the most important German-speaking poets presents himself in verse and prose about the Eternal City – in the footsteps of Goethe, Ingeborg Bachmann and all the romantic writers of the past..: „Aufblühen wird man hier, auch als kraut sich gern überlassen. Dem wohligen Phototropismus. Der man im Norden war, Dieser Eisblock Identität, Psyches Schneemann ist bald zerronnen.“ He who speaks like this has arrived at a place where many of his writing and life motives converge. Durs Grünbein’s year in Rome took shape in a drawing book. The city – “Roma caput mundi” – is experienced as a scene of signs and references and, as with travelers of earlier times, is reflected in drawings – albeit in written form. Composed of four chapters, his opus incertum was created, based on the model of ancient Roman masonry made of rubble stones. Grünbein’s Aroma opens with long-line poems in free, hexametrically stormy meter: but not in search of the lost yesterday. Rather, it is the kaleidoscopic moments of the present that direct the poet’s gaze towards the city and the surrounding area. The poet finds the spiritual brotherhood under the sign of urbanity, across time, in Juvenal, whose Third Satire he retranslates and explains. In a series of prose images that capture the Apostle Paul as well as the antique dealer and the African immigrant in Roman places of remembrance, Grünbein breaks with the lyrical measure before the sketch book ends in free verse: „Die Städte träumen alle voneinander. / Sie rufen sich beim Markennamen, und das Echo / Hallt durch die engen Korridore der Straßen.“.