Memorial Friederike Mayröcker In zijn worsteling om ervaringen

In zijn worsteling om ervaringen in woorden te vangen raakt hij soms aan het numineuze

Zijn veertig jaar schrijverschap vieren we met een aantal feestelijke uitgaven

which published some of the most influential authors of late-twentieth-century avant-garde literature

‘opdat alles zou worden onthouden

and trimmed by hand

Memorial Friederike Mayröcker In zijn worsteling om ervaringenAlice Oswald Matthew Arnold praised the "Iliad" for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story, and her account focuses by turns on Homer's extended similes and on the brief 'biographies' of the minor war dead, most of whom are