90 seiten. englisch. 8to. (oktavformat). okarton/ softcover, mit dem 'reading room' stempel auf dem vortitel. first edition. 'this is the fugitive is an essay in the form of a prose poem, an assay with the content of a reflection, an esse that is driven out but bending back. through the lenses of georg büchner’s life and works (woyzeck, danton’s death, etc.), it contemplates socio-political oppression and rebellion, government surveillance, violence (particularly against women and girls) and alienation. pronouns rove among personas, including büchner’s female characters and his fiancée wilhelmine jaeglé, in a triple exposure of childhood, teenhood and adulthood. the book’s girlish straying is an ethical and spiritual wrestling—an exploration of transience and transcendence, flight and fluid identities, melancholy and freedom. while staying vulnerable to the present, this is the fugitive strives for a fugitive poetics as a form of translit.'(essay press). leicht berieben, ansonsten sehr gutes exemplar
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