Konkretion
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By turns funny and moving, konkretion stages a dialogue around the romance of the Baader-Meinhof gang's revolutionary aspirations. Ex-commo Monique Piquet (aka Monica Picket) meets up in Paris with her former student, Angel Beigesang, who has just published konkretion - a dramatic re-imagining of Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin of the Red Army Faction. Like an old birdie in a familiar stomping ground, Monique bobbles through revolutionary and repressive Paris, recalling her earlier radicalism and its influence on Angel's dangerous identification with revolutionaries. This gem of a novella is must-read for anyone interested in language, politics, history, Paris, Baader-Meinhof, revolution, academia, romance, culture, irony...
Author: Marion May Campbell
Format: Paperback, 192 pages, 128mm x 198mm
Published: 2013, UWA Publishing, Australia
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
By turns funny and moving, konkretion stages a dialogue around the romance of the Baader-Meinhof gang's revolutionary aspirations. Ex-commo Monique Piquet (aka Monica Picket) meets up in Paris with her former student, Angel Beigesang, who has just published konkretion - a dramatic re-imagining of Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin of the Red Army Faction. Like an old birdie in a familiar stomping ground, Monique bobbles through revolutionary and repressive Paris, recalling her earlier radicalism and its influence on Angel's dangerous identification with revolutionaries. This gem of a novella is must-read for anyone interested in language, politics, history, Paris, Baader-Meinhof, revolution, academia, romance, culture, irony...
Konkretion