TY - JOUR AU - van den Berg, Hubert PY - 2007/05/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Martin Puchner, Poetry of the Revolution. Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes 2006. JF - Nordlit JA - Nordlit VL - 0 IS - 21 SE - Reviews DO - 10.7557/13.1789 UR - https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1789 SP - 300-305 AB - 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 <em>Manifestantismus</em> 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. ER -