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Gottfried Benn

January 5th, 2008 · No Comments

dmtls Made a great post today on dmtlsmerzbau.wordpress.com
The first bit is quoted here:

Although my visits to supervert are rather often, I somehow managed to overlook this particular entry under electronic library category, Gottfried Benn’s poetry, morbid and disturbing.
…his early Expressionist verse — particularly the Morgue cycle — is matchless for its economy, precision, and irony. Walter Kaufmann, the famous translator of Nietzsche, wrote that its “shocking power,” […]

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