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FOREIGN
HANSER
RIGHTS
Christian Enzensberger
Größerer Versuch über den Schmutz
Smut. An Anatomy of Dirt
136 pages. French brochure
Publication date: July 25, 2011
The subject of this book – first published in 1968 and out of print for many years – is
dirt as an experience. We are all familiar with it. But what does it in fact comprise? Has it
changed over time? Smut: An Anatomy of Dirt sets out to illustrate how dirt can help a
person to define themselves; how, in a social context, power and dirt inevitably join forces.
How post-industrial civilisation with its hygiene market is in the process of transforming
the world as well as human beings into dirt.
Christian Enzensberger’s polyphonic and much-acclaimed essay is now available in a new
edition at long last.
Christian Enzensberger
1931–2009, was a writer, translator and Professor of English Literature at Munich University.
His prose poems Eins nach dem andern were published in the AKZENTE series last
year.
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