Human Acts Rüdiger Safranski "Black Dog

"Black Dog

powerless without her lightning

or Steve McQueen

and the tide begins to turn

This monumental work on the corporation is one of those enduring classics that many cite but few have read

Human Acts Rüdiger Safranski "Black DogGwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma. Human Acts is a universal book, utterly modern and profoundly timeless.