Konkretion

By Marion May Campbell

By turns funny and moving, this story stages a dialogue around the romance of the Baader-Meinhof Gang's revolutionary aspirations. Ex-commo Monique Piquet (aka Monica Picket) meets up in Paris with her former student, Angel Beigesang, who has just published konkretion - a dramatic re-imagining of Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin of the Red Army Faction. Like an old birdie in a familiar stomping ground, Monique bobbles through revolutionary and repressive Paris, recalling her earlier radicalism and its influence on Angel's dangerous identification with revolutionaries. This exquisite book offers a fascinating look at the 1970s Baader-Meinhof Gang and follows Meinhof's tripwire leap into illegality: her flight underground, crimes committed in the name of 'armed struggle, ' and her incarceration. The book explores the use and power of language, politics, and romancing the law, and is an entertaining dialogue between two women.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742584918
• ISBN13: 9781742584911
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
• Length: 156 Pages