Russia Container

Not just in light of a currently contested pipeline but also after centuries of both exchange and rejection, Russia and Germany were and are as far away from each other as they are connected. The political present seems critical, the signs point towards conflict and polarity.

»Hardly anyone has such virtuosic mastery of this delicate art of thought as Alexander Kluge.« Paul Jandl, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

»Alexander Kluge’s book about Russia is associative, surprising, smart – a reading pleasure that lasts for 400 pages.« Irmtraud Gutschke, der Freitag

»Alexander Kluge’s books are mountains oft exts. They become condensed into a continent of knowledge.« Christine Hamel, WDR

»Poetic cargo from a country whose vastness and diversity alone activate the imagination. Alexander Kluge’s art of omission on the other hand, his elliptic way of thinking that consistently frogoes connections and leaves a lot of space to the reader’s imagination, is a congenial method of approaching Russia.« Niels Beintker, Bayern 2

»Those interested in such great and small questions, that not only pertain to our fragmented present but also to our sense of what is possible, […] will always make a find in Alexander Kluge’s works.« Uwe Schütte, Wiener Zeitung

»Regarding his wide-ranging use of visual, textual and even acoustic media, Kluge is almost unique among German intellectuals.« Frank Olbert, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

»Kluge has invented his very own literary form and has given them a classic shape: the historico-philosophical episode. […] His texts are food for thought and ask for intellectual independence.« Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Unterricht und Kultus

»An unmediated experience – […] guaranteed by this wonderful and enlightening journey across the vastness of Russia in Alexander Kluge’s Russia-Container.« Ö1