Martin Puchner, <i>Poetry of the Revolution. Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes</i> 2006.

Hubert van den Berg

doi:10.7557/13.1789

Authors

Hubert van den Berg Groningen Research Institute, Study of Culture and the Dutch Department, University of Groningen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1789

Keywords:

Manifestanismus, Martin Puchner, Poetry of the Revolution. Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes,

Abstract

The genre of the manifesto belongs to the key elements of avant-garde textuality. As such, the manifesto has received considerable attention in recent avant-garde research. Many articles, chapters in general studies on the avant-garde, several collections of essays, monographs and annotated anthologies have been devoted to the manifesto in the past decades. Martin Puchner's book on the avant-garde manifesto is a latecomer in this context, published some ten years after a wave of Manifestantismus struck in particular continental European avant-garde research. As in the case of any late arrival, the main question is self-evidently: what adds Puchner to already existing literature? The answer must be rather ambivalent. Puchner's book definitely fills a lacuna in the Anglophone historiography of the avant-garde.

Author Biography

Hubert van den Berg, Groningen Research Institute, Study of Culture and the Dutch Department, University of Groningen

Hubert F. van den Berg is researcher in the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture and the Dutch Department of the University of Groningen (Netherlands). Publications on literature and politics, the social history of literature and art, dada and the European avant-garde as well as the literary representation and the cultural history of nature. Together with Walter Fähnders he prepares currently a dictionary of the European avant-garde of the twentieth century.