WEISS, Peter
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I

All around us the bodies rose out of the stone, crowded into groups, intertwined, or shattered into fragments, hinting at their shapes with a torso, a propped-up arm, a burst hip, a scabbed shard, always in warlike gestures, dodging, rebounding, attacking, shielding themselves, stretched high or crooked, some of them snuffed out, but with a freestanding, forward-pressin foot, a twisted back, the contour of a calf harnessed into a single common motion, sinking back into formlessness.

It all starts there – a group of friends thinking relations of power and class through the Pergamon – in the greatest modern epic of all times, here in its English translation.

Translated by Joachim Neugroschel.

Foreword by Fredric Jameson.

Glossary by Robert Cohen.

Published by Duke University Press, 2005
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