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"The thirty-eight tales of Cinema Stories combine fact and fiction, and they all revolve around movie-making. The book compresses a lifetime of feeling, thought, and practice: Kluge -- considered the father of New German Cinema -- is an inventive wellspring of narrative notions. ""The power of his prose,"" as Small Press noted, ""exudes the sort of pregnant richness one might find in the brief scenarios of unknown films."" Cinema Stories is a treasure box of cinematic lore and movie magic by ""Alexander Kluge, that most enlightened of writers"" (W. G. Sebald). Alexander Kluge, born in Germany in 1932, is a world-famous author and filmmaker (his 23 films include Yesterday Girl, The Female Patriot, The Candidate), a lawyer, and a media magnate. He has won Germany's highest literary award, the Georg Büchner Prize."

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Alexander Kluge, that most enlightened of writers. -- W.G. Sebald Alexander Kluge is a gigantic figure in the German cultural landscape. He exemplifies-along with Pasolini-what is most vigorous and original in the European idea of the artist as intellectual, the intellectual as artist....Essential, brilliant. -- Susan Sontag A bold, galvanizing hybrid of fiction, interview, film theory, German history, scientific inquiry, and his cosmology of cinema. -- KGB Bar Book Review

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Alexander Kluge, born in Germany in 1932, is a world-famous author and filmmaker (his 23 films include Yesterday Girl, The Female Patriot, The Candidate), a lawyer, and a media magnate. He has won Germany's highest literary award, the Georg Büchner Prize.

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