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| Friday, May 1, 2009 11:17PM | | | | Unbearable Truths, but Good Poetry | Tags: uwe kolb, uljana wolf, stasi, human rights, gdr, pen world voices, austrian cultural center, poetry, jonathan pepperhouse
| | | This panel was billed as a discussion about the discovery of 'unbearable truths', as mediated through the milieu of the former German Democratic Republic. It was much more about poetry, and that was fine with me.
Poetry is Better than Prose
The earlier panel Left/Right Literature uttered the profound question of whether literature is capable of truly reflecting the horror of war. The Austrian author Gstrein observed that novels often fall short of communicating war, because it is always more horrible than words can express. Combined with this is the fact that novels often present thematic linkages of characters and events that do not necessarily happen in real war. Rather, war is disjointed and unpredictable. So what could capture such an elusive... | | | | | |
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