Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940-1975). "Roma die Notte"

The contribution offers a translation of one of Brinkmann's poems on Italy, written at the time of his stay in Rome and published in Westwärts 1&2 (1975). The text has a subversive nature and exploits negative stereotypes in order to portrait the life in Rome. The author shows the avantgardistic attitude of his patchwork of images in order to express the uneasiness of contemporary world.