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Balancing on a dash
between silence an language
language German
Queredo-Publishers
Düsseldorf 2009
hard cover with clust cover
16,0 x 23,0 cm
80 pages, Japanese binding
numerous whole page illustrations
EUR 26.-
ISBN 978-3-00-026961-5

Can one balance on a dash?
One very well can as this book, which balances between silence and
language, shows. Irmgard Sonnen shows the link between the unspoken,
the lack of remembrance, the space in between, the blank, the gap.
With texts from Heinrich Heine, Heinrich von Kleist, Christian Morgenstern,
Friedrich Nietzsche, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Benjamin,
Man Ray, Hans Börg, Karl Riha, Jürgen Kisters and Michael Kröger.

»This line portrays a black sofa on which happens the story I am not
telling» Heinrich Heine

Heinrich von Kleist speaks about the development of a pregnancy of
which the Marquise of O lacks all knowledge about its origin. It originates
with a — and then everything changes from ones original belief.

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