title: The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume 1: A Novel
author:  Peter Weiss 
description: <div>&ldquo;<I>The Aesthetics of Resistance</I> is centrally important to any kind of assessment of twentieth-century German history.&rdquo;&mdash;James Rolleston, editor of <I>A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka</I></div><br /><br /><div>&ldquo;[<I>The Aesthetics of Resistance</I>] . . . which [Peter Weiss] began when he was well over fifty, making a pilgrimage over the arid slopes of cutlural and contemporary history in the company of <I>pavor nocturnus</I>, the terror of the night, and laden with a monstrous weight of ideological ballast, is a magnum opus which sees itself . . . not only as the expression of an ephemeral wish for redemption, but as an expression of the <I>will</I> to be on the side of the victims at the end of time.&rdquo;&mdash;W. G. Sebald, <I>On the Natural History of Destruction</I></div><br /><br /><div>&quot;<i>The Aesthetics of Resistance </i>writes those who have been culturally and historically excluded back into the story of their time and demands&mdash;as modernism does&mdash;that we learn to read in a new way. . . . The monuments of modernism today rise like Ozymandias&rsquo; statue in the sand: <i>Ulysses</i>, Proust, Beckett, Pound&rsquo;s Cant<i>os, The</i> <i>Making of Americans</i>, The Wa<i>ste Land. At l</i>ast, we have an English translation of a work that stands alongside them.&quot;</div> (Robert Buckeye <i>Review of Contemporary Fiction</i>)<br /><br /><div>&quot;[O]ne of the most significant works of postwar German literature. . . . The novel feels like an endless soliloquy on a bare stage, but one that takes the audience on the most amazingly imaginative time-and-space journey, with the narrative perspective cutting like a movie director's camera from one intensely rendered visual detail to the next. . . . [E]xhilaratingly strange, compelling, and original. Readers who dare to enter this demanding verbal landscape will not come away empty-handed.&quot;</div> (Mark M. Anderson <i>Bookforum</i>)
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