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By Heimrad B盲cker

Translated by Vincent Kling, professor of German and comparative literature at La Salle University in Philadelphia; and Patrick Greaney, assistant professor of German and comparative literature at CU-Boulder

鈥榯ranscript鈥� is a disturbing document. Using the techniques of concrete and visual poetry, Heimrad B盲cker presents quotations from the Holocaust鈥檚 planners, perpetrators, and victims.

The book offers a startling collection of documents that confront us with details from the bureaucratic world of the Nazis and the intimate worlds they destroyed. B盲cker鈥檚 sources range from victims鈥� letters and medical charts to train schedules and the telephone records of Auschwitz. His transcriptions and reworkings of these sources serve as a reminder that everything about the Shoah was spoken about in great detail, from the most banal to the most monstrous.

鈥榯ranscript鈥� shows us that the Holocaust was not 鈥渦nspeakable,鈥� but was an eminently describable and described act spoken about by thousands of people concerned with the precision and even the beauty of their language.

鈥淭he cumulative effect of these fragments is harrowing. A letter says: 鈥渋 probably won鈥檛 ever see you again, won鈥檛 hear your voice, won鈥檛 kiss you. but how i want to see you, if only once!鈥� In the long lists of names, one or two stick out. What did the tailor Zoltan Fleishmann look like? What sort of life did the shopkeeper Bernhard Herskovits have? We read about a camp inmate who was punished with death for not executing with total accuracy the motion of taking off his cap and putting it back on, of another who was shot because he was no longer capable of performing certain kinds of heavy labor owing to his physical condition, and of a little 4-year-old Jewish boy who distributed short pieces of string to men and women on the way to the gas chamber鈥攑resumably by way of reassurance. Poetry is in the details, we usually say, but so is cruelty.鈥�

鈥擟harles Simic

鈥淭hus while 鈥榯ranscript鈥� is extremely effective both as literature and a warning against the horrors of Nazism, it simultaneously leads the readers to question their ability to fully apprehend 鈥榬eality鈥� because of the ways in which our experience is filtered through prior 鈥榢nowledge鈥� that may be of either a 鈥榙ocumentary鈥� or a 鈥榝ictional鈥� nature.鈥�

鈥擲tuart Home

鈥淲ith 鈥榯ranscript,鈥� a new chapter began for concrete and visual poetry.鈥�

鈥擡ugen Gomringer

鈥淚 consider 鈥榯ranscript鈥� to be a major work of concrete poetry and, beyond that, proof that its methods can convey reality much more intensively than the methods of description.鈥�

鈥擣riedrich Achleitner