The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

Name: The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
Released: 1997-06-16
Duration: 24 min

Overview

The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with this Brechtian sentence: "Oil resists the five acts." He describes how difficult it is to make a dramatic adaptation of structures or massive processes that are not bound to biographies.