Heads or Tails: The Poetics of Money
Horisch, Jochen / Marschall, Amy Horning
The invention of paper money serves as one of the primal scenes of German literature. German literature becomes the outlet for testing the links and limits of money. Literature, like money, occupies an ambiguous relationship between plenitude and inflation, resource and lack thereof. First published in Germany as Kopf oder Zahl in 1996 and now superbly translated into English by Amy Horning Marschall, Heads or Tails studies the status of money...