Reviews
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Prussia, Pleasure Garden
Rubble Flora
The Gründel
Demand
An Account of Despair
The Life and Times of Volker Braun
At Dawn
Oyesters
Is It Too Soon. Is It Too Late
Afternoon
Definition
Italian Night
Prussia, Pleasure Garden
Fief
Innermost Africa
Daydream
Walter Benjamin in the Pyrenees
Dark Places
Woken out of Dogmatic Slumber
Breakfast
Another Part of the Heath
Gallery of Antiquities
From The Zig-Zag Bridge
The Zig-Zag Bridge
Turning Point
The Cinnamon Forest
The Muddy Levels
Builder on the Stalinallee
New Wallpaper
The Colony
Prologue for the Opening of the Fortieth Season of the Berliner Ensemble on 11 October 1989
2. The Massacre of Illusions
O Chicago! O Contradiction!
Property
9 November
My Brother
Theatre of the Dead
Ambra
End of October in August
Marlboro Is Red. Red Is Marlboro
West Shore
Balance
Pliny Sends Greetings to Tacitus
The Magma in the Heart of the Tuareg
6. 5.1996
Hill of the Dead
Bay of the Dead
After the Massacre of Illusions
Lagerfeld
Coined for the Ruling Class
From Dances of Death
Utopia
Communism
Common Ownership
Ideology
Class Struggle
Solidarity
Art
3. Findings
Pontine Marshes
Paradiso
Berlin-Mitte
Tides
When He Could See Again
Shakespeare Shuttle
World Power
Bed for the Night with Su Tung-P’o (1036–1101)
The Empire Considers a Map of the World
Ultimatum to Parsley Island
The Centre
Here’s to the Good Times! For Sir Philip Sidney
De vita beata. After Jaime Gil de Biedma
Hidden
The Lovers. Before Dante
My Fear
Untimely
Everywhere the Lights are Going Out
The Last-Shift Mass
Cashing Up
Iguanas
Wilderness
Findings
Glut
The Slum-Dwellers of Medellin Take Possession of the Great Escalator 27 December 2011
Exequies
Conversation about the Trees in Gezi Park
Demon
Notes
Translations and Dates
Sources