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'''''Mausoleum: Thirty Seven Ballads from the History of Progress''''' ({{lang-de|Mausoleum. Siebenunddreißig Balladen aus der Geschichte des Fortschritts}}) is a 1975 poetry collection by the German writer [[Hans Magnus Enzensberger]]. It portrays 37 people Enzensberer regarded as the spiritual fathers of civilisation, presented only by their initials.<ref>{{cite news |last=Novak |first=Helga M. |date=5 October 1975 |url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/der-fortschritt-des-grauens-a-87f47d01-0002-0001-0000-000041443454 |title=Der Fortschritt des Grauens |newspaper=[[Der Spiegel]] |language=de |access-date=11 July 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Bulkeley |first=Rip |year=1978 |title=H M Enzensberger: Mausoleum |journal=[[Radical Philosophy]] |volume=19 |issue=44 }}</ref>
'''''Mausoleum: Thirty Seven Ballads from the History of Progress''''' ({{lang-de|Mausoleum. Siebenunddreißig Balladen aus der Geschichte des Fortschritts}}) is a 1975 poetry collection by the German writer [[Hans Magnus Enzensberger]]. It portrays 37 people Enzensberger regarded as the spiritual fathers of civilisation, presented only by their initials.<ref>{{cite news |last=Novak |first=Helga M. |date=5 October 1975 |url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/der-fortschritt-des-grauens-a-87f47d01-0002-0001-0000-000041443454 |title=Der Fortschritt des Grauens |newspaper=[[Der Spiegel]] |language=de |access-date=11 July 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Bulkeley |first=Rip |year=1978 |title=H M Enzensberger: Mausoleum |journal=[[Radical Philosophy]] |volume=19 |issue=44 }}</ref>


The book has been interpreted as a critique of technological [[progress]] and a turn toward [[ecology]], expressed as an interest in [[botany]] and botanists.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Melin |first=Charlotte |year=2018 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/19/article/718551 |title=Cultivating a Poetics of Knowledge: H.M. Enzensberger's Mausoleum, the Botanical, and the Anthropocene |url-access=subscription |journal={{ill|Monatshefte|de|Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur}} |volume=110 |issue=4 |pages=600–616 |access-date=11 July 2024 }}</ref>
The book has been interpreted as a critique of technological [[progress]] and a turn toward [[ecology]], expressed as an interest in [[botany]] and botanists.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Melin |first=Charlotte |year=2018 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/19/article/718551 |title=Cultivating a Poetics of Knowledge: H.M. Enzensberger's Mausoleum, the Botanical, and the Anthropocene |url-access=subscription |journal={{ill|Monatshefte|de|Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur}} |volume=110 |issue=4 |pages=600–616 |access-date=11 July 2024 }}</ref>

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Mausoleum
AuthorHans Magnus Enzensberger
TranslatorJoachim Neugroschel
LanguageGerman
PublisherSuhrkamp Verlag
Publication date
1975
Publication placeWest Germany
Published in English
1976
Pages125

Mausoleum: Thirty Seven Ballads from the History of Progress (German: Mausoleum. Siebenunddreißig Balladen aus der Geschichte des Fortschritts) is a 1975 poetry collection by the German writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It portrays 37 people Enzensberger regarded as the spiritual fathers of civilisation, presented only by their initials.[1][2]

The book has been interpreted as a critique of technological progress and a turn toward ecology, expressed as an interest in botany and botanists.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Novak, Helga M. (5 October 1975). "Der Fortschritt des Grauens". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  2. ^ Bulkeley, Rip (1978). "H M Enzensberger: Mausoleum". Radical Philosophy. 19 (44).
  3. ^ Melin, Charlotte (2018). "Cultivating a Poetics of Knowledge: H.M. Enzensberger's Mausoleum, the Botanical, and the Anthropocene". Monatshefte [de]. 110 (4): 600–616. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
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