Cinema Stories [Paperback]

Each of the thirty-nine tales of Alexander Kluge's A bold, galvanizing hybrid of fiction, interview, film theory, German history, scientific inquiry, and his cosmology of cinema. 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. Alexander Kluge, that most enlightened of writers.