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Generally considered the least lively and most bleak of casts, gray is the taint of vagueness and uncertainty. This book situates itself in a region beyond criticism but this side of literature, characterized by forgetting and finitude, and investigating important yet seemingly inaccessible "gray areas" in texts as old as those of Homer, and as recent as those of Beckett.

The first, richly illustrated biography of Nobel Prize laureate Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), Aris Fioretos' study portrays one of the seminal 20th century poets against the backdrop of a vast array of hitherto unknown historical materials.

'My name is Knisch, Sascha Knisch, and six days ago my life was in perfect order.'Knisch, who works as a projectionist at the Apollo movie theatre, is a person with special sexual habits.