The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot (1997)

★ 0.0 0h 24m 1997-06-16

Director: Alexander Kluge

The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with this Brechtian sentence: "Oil resists the five acts." He describes how difficult it is to make a dramatic adaptation of structures or massive processes that are not bound to biographies.

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