by Hans Magnus Enzensberger · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433913470
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«Mediocridad y delirio» is a collection of essays by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (252 pages, in Spanish).
Hans Magnus Enzensberger analyses with irony contemporary public life: defamatory journalism, television, the World Bank, the Flick affair, ecological deterioration and terrorism. He also addresses literary criticism and the figure of the «secondary illiterate», with a keen eye on mediocrity and collective delusions.
Volume 117 of Anagrama's Argumentos collection. Translation by Michael Faber-Kaiser. Work originally published in German in 1988.
For readers of essays, journalism and social criticism who want to discover the work of the German intellectual Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger was a German author, poet, playwright, essayist, translator, and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Andreas Thalmayr, Elisabeth Ambras, Linda Quilt and Giorgio Pellizzi. Enzensberger was regarded as one of the literary founding figures of the Federal Republic of Germany and wrote more than 70 books, with works translated into 40 languages. He was one of the leading authors in Group 47, and influenced the 1968 West German student movement. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize and the Pour le Mérite, among many others.
