Relocating the Secret Point

Relocating the Secret Point gathers underground texts and speeches. The collection opens with a satire of expatriation written in January 1977 and is followed by the radical pamphlet Büchner’s Letters; it contains essays on Shakespeare and Rimbaud, Goethe and Kafka: poetry and politics, and points to a shift in the work that will grow into a radical change.

»These ›nudges‹ definitely have the makings and the originality to tempt one to ponder the time(s).« Roland Gutsch, Nordkurier

»The poet, playwright, novelist and essayist Volker Braun impresses with polemic poignancy, literary elegance and intellectual finesse.« Cornelia Jentzsch, Deutschlandfunk

»The exceptional thing about Volker Braun’s texts is how they venture into depths and from the historical underground bring to light the hope that was buried with the dead.« Michael Opitz, WDR

»a powerful voice, influential, smart« Leipziger Volkszeitung

»the most important German political poet after Bertolt Brecht« Christian Eger, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung