The Notes Or On Nonpremature Reconciliation Abridged Ludwig Hohl Joshua Cohen by Ludwig Hohl. Joshua Cohen, Tess Lewis 9780300220056, 0300220057 instant download after payment.

“The Notes should be celebrated: it is wonderful that this volume of [Hohl’s] compact, aphoristic observations has finally arrived in English.” — Alexandra Sattler, Arts Fuse

Revered by Bertolt Brecht and Max Frisch as one of Switzerland’s most commanding writers, Ludwig Hohl spent most of his waking hours with a pen in hand, collecting quotes from others and recording ruminations of his own. Composed between 1934 and 1936 during his residence in the Netherlands in a state of “extreme spiritual desolation,” The Notes is Hohl’s magnum opus: an assemblage of his epiphany-like observations, disparate in the subject yet threaded together by relentless exploration of the nature and origins of creativity.

A collection of illuminating observations on life and art, from an acclaimed Swiss modernist
Inspired by Spinoza, Goethe, and many others, The Notes contends with the purpose of work, the vitality of art, and the inevitability of death—a valiant, uncompromising exercise in hope against the devastating backdrop of twentieth-century Europe. This abridged edition, expertly translated by Tess Lewis and with an illuminating foreword by Joshua Cohen, introduces the reader to this remarkable work and its writer.