{"product_id":"image-for-investigation-about-my-father-paperback","title":"Image for Investigation: About my Father - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristoph Meckel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eStan Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eBen Winch\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImage for Investigation: About my Father\u003c\/em\u003e is Christoph Meckel's celebrated work of memoir or \"father-biography\" in the mould of Paul Kersten's\u003cem\u003e Der alltägliche Tod meines Vaters\u003c\/em\u003e and Ruth Rehmann's \u003cem\u003eDer Mann auf der Kanzel\u003c\/em\u003e. The book is an act of \u003cem\u003eneed\u003c\/em\u003e, personal and political: an attempt, by the son of a former German officer in the Second World War, to account not merely for his father's actions but for the actions of a generation. His compassion, his dexterity with the knife, his lack of sentiment when sentiment would only slow his hand, his seeing around his subject, his willingness (an artist's) to explore--these traits make \u003cem\u003eImage \u003c\/em\u003ean uncommon work of its kind. Meckel's language is unsparing, torn from a heart shut tight and wounded by love. This edition revises Stan Jones's original translation, and includes a new introduction by Ben Winch.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Ironically, the portrait which is more believable is not that of E. Meckel but of the author himself, who inadvertantly appears in the role of a judgemental, petulant and vindictive son, out to even with his father for the many unjust punishments he had suffered at the latter's hands.\" -- Anest Andrea, \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A chapter of family history, which is not unique and not purely private but representative and political through-and through. . . . A sensitive officer, who would rather have sat at his writer's desk and yet enjoyed command; a father, who would rather have been the dad-at-play and yet claims the position of head of the family in all circumstances and sees correction as his duty: the images fit together exactly.\" -- Elsbeth Pulve, \u003cem\u003eSchweizerische Monatshefte\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 124\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49545421160600,"sku":"9789810967628","price":29.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/f6IbIGSZY59789810967628.webp?v=1784802209","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobooks.myshopify.com\/products\/image-for-investigation-about-my-father-paperback","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}