Overview

As past and future blur, this work from Alexander Kluge reveals the emotional and intellectual currents that drive human survival. A kaleidoscopic journey through history and the vast landscape of human emotion, The Long March of Basic Trust presents Alexander Kluge at his most expansive and incisive. Moving seamlessly across time and space, Kluge weaves a tapestry of lived and imagined experience, interrogating the forces that shape our resilience in the face of catastrophe. From the wreckage of World War II to the deep time of geology, his singular prose dissolves boundaries between the real and the speculative. Blurring the lines between fiction and philosophy, Kluge builds an intricate world enriched by hybrid images and his latest experiment: the ""virtual camera,"" a cinematic eye that captures the interplay of memory and invention. Now in his tenth decade, Kluge continues his lifelong pursuit of uncovering the patterns that connect us and the basic trust that allows us to go on. Both intellectually provocative and deeply humane, this latest installment in his Chronicle of Emotions is a testament to his unmatched ability to fuse thought and feeling into an electrifying literary form.

Full Product Details

Author:   Alexander Kluge ,  Alexander Booth
Publisher:   Seagull Books London Ltd
Imprint:   Seagull Books London Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9781803095479

ISBN 10:   1803095474
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   04 December 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

1.The Spanish Sentry 2.The Pedagogue of Klopau 3.Those Who Hope Die Singing 4.Arrival of Sunday’s Child 5.The Long March of Basic Trust 6.Cooperative Behaviour 7.Back to Basic Trust 8.Basic Trust and Basic Fear 9.Distrust Towards Reality 10.On the Deep Sleep of the Spirit 11.Waking Sleep of Whales and Dolphins 12.Undoing a Crime by Means of Cooperation 13.A Saturday in October 1929 14.The Man Without Qualities 15.They Did Not Come to Any Conclusion 16.Wanderer by Night 17.Executing an Elephant 18.The Emperor of My Trust 19.Star Wars 20.Clear Moscow Evenings, When the Northwest Wind Blows 21.Galina Starovoitova 22.20 Billion Years Before Christ 23.More Animals on Earth than Stars in the Milky Way 24.The Confidence of Caged Cows 25.Negligence in War, Nuclear Power and the Death Penalty 26.The Blind and the Inexperienced 27.Encounter with the Unknown 28.The Waltz of the Generals 29.A 570-Million-Year-Old Cloak of Invisibility 30.Robinson in Russia 31.The Quantum Vacuum, a Poetic Metaphor 32.My Paternal Ancestors 33.A Complicated Generational Sequence 34.Thinking About One’s Own Children in 1908 35.How the War Was Lost 36.The Inventor of Infiltration Tactics 37.‘… like a multitude of soft whistles…’ 38.A Forgotten Weapon 39.The Fifth Art of Forgetting 40.The Power of Fate 41.Extreme Dwarves 42.Devils Have a Waiting Period 43.The Underwater Artist 44.Modern Humankind 45.Slave Water 46.A Lift into the Oceanic Depths 47.Heiner Müller and Project Spring Water

Reviews

Author Information

Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. Alexander Booth is a poet and translator based in Berlin.  

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions