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Mausoleum: Thirty Seven Ballads from the History of Progress

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Mausoleum
AuthorHans Magnus Enzensberger
TranslatorJoachim Neugroschel
LanguageGerman
PublisherSuhrkamp Verlag
Publication date
1975
Publication placeWest Germany
Published in English
1976
Pages125

Mausoleum: Thirty Seven Ballads from the History of Progress (German: Mausoleum. Siebenunddreißig Balladen aus der Geschichte des Fortschritts) is a 1975 poetry collection by the German writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It portrays 37 people Enzensberger regarded as the spiritual fathers of civilisation, presented only by their initials.[1][2]

The book has been interpreted as a critique of technological progress and a turn toward ecology, expressed as an interest in botany and botanists.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Novak, Helga M. (5 October 1975). "Der Fortschritt des Grauens". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  2. ^ Bulkeley, Rip (1978). "H M Enzensberger: Mausoleum". Radical Philosophy. 19 (44).
  3. ^ Melin, Charlotte (2018). "Cultivating a Poetics of Knowledge: H.M. Enzensberger's Mausoleum, the Botanical, and the Anthropocene". Monatshefte [de]. 110 (4): 600–616. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
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