The Labyrinth of Tender Force

166 Love Stories

Alexander Kluge

Translated by Wieland Hoban

Hardcover

978-08-57426-04-8

Seagull Books, kolkata, 2019

Language: English

521 pages

6" x 9"

INR 0.00

Out of stock

SKU

LWB880

No human quality is more necessary for survival than love, yet it is easy to lose your way within love’s complex labyrinth of oppositions.

The Labyrinth of Tender Force collects 166 of Alexander Kluge’s love stories previously concealed among his vast library of more than 2,000 texts. 'Basic stories' was what he once called them. Organized thematically, these stories take readers on a flight over the maps—the varied topography—of love. This flight ends on a high plateau, at the heart of the most beautiful romances and a cardinal text of modernity about the economy of relationships: Madame de La Fayette’s The Princess of Cleves.

The latest offering from one of the greatest living German writers, The Labyrinth of Tender Force masterfully explores the greatest peaks and the most dreadful crevasses of passionate love combining Kluge’s trenchant vignettes with drawings, photographs and other archival material culled from diverse sources.

Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge (b. 1932) is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. His awards include the Italian Literature Prize Isola d’Elba (1967), and almost every major German-language literary prize, including the Heinrich von Kleist Prize (1985), the Heinrich Böll Prize (1993) and the Schiller Memorial Prize (2001). He has also received the Georg Büchner Prize (2003), Germany’s highest literary award.