Temple of the Scapegoat: Opera Stories [Paperback]

Combining fact and fiction, each of the one hundred and two tales of Alexander Kluges Finely drawn and often ingenious analyses of opera as a genre...Unlike anything Kluge has ever written before... Elegant provocations to seize an opera addict's imagination.The real and imagined history of opera, the landscape of emotions, and the blast furnaces of the soul, guide Kluges captivating collection. Over 100 short stories compose a vision of opera as a durable and protean art form.Alexander Kluge, that most enlightened of writers.Alexander Kluge is a gigantic figure in the German cultural landscape. He exemplifiesalong with Pasoliniwhat is most vigorous and original in the European idea of the artist as intellectual, the intellectual as artist. Essential, brilliant.Revolving around the opera, these tales are an archaeological excavation of the slag-heaps of our collective existence (W. G. Sebald)