Michael Grote
Exerzitien, Experimente: Zur akustischen Literatur von Carlfriedrich Claus.
Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2009. First edition. 9783895287107 453 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.25", is like new.
This book offers a substantial bibliography (pages 415 - 446).
"With his language sheets and sound processes, Carlfriedrich Claus (1930-1998) created one of the most influential and at the same time most enigmatic works of experimental literature and art of the 20th century. His microarticulations in sound and writing, which emerged in the GDR in the 1950s largely unnoticed by the public in East and West, are today among the most important examples of international visual and phonetic poetry. The present study offers an initial work history of Claus's acoustic literature and at the same time provides an introduction to his poetics of an “experimental existence in experimental work”, as reflected in his theoretical writings, but also very specifically in his expeditions to the elementary conditions of writing and speaking."