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Browsing through Enzensberger's Album

In a witty and unconventional foreword Hans Magnus Enzensberger tries to characterize his recently published (and unpaginated) Album, calling it amongst other things a ‘Potpourri’, a ‘Kuddelmuddel’, a ‘Sammelsurium’, a ‘ragbag’, and even an ‘olla podrida’, by all of which he means a collection of miscellaneous and heterogeneous texts loosely assembled in the manner of a scrapbook. He claims, moreover, that the disorderly and haphazard presentation of the material simply mirrors the chaotic functioning of that ‘undisciplined’ organ we call the brain! The main goal of this colourful and playful book is to rescue from obscurity, or indeed from oblivion, a whole array of previously published texts (essays, prefaces, newspaper articles, and the like) no longer readily accessible to the public at large. Notable among these are the ingenious word games that the poet had invented and exhibited, under the title WortSpielZeug, at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach in 2007 and later at the Swarowski Kristallenwelt in Wattens, Austria in 2008. In addition, the Album amply demonstrates Enzensberger's irresistible penchant for lists, catalogues, inventories, and registers, including a revealing ‘Eurozentrische Liste’, in which he brings together the myriad beneficial discoveries and inventions produced in Europe in the twentieth century.