Interbellum Literature
Writing in a Season of Nihilism
Gebonden Engels 2017 9789004341791Samenvatting
In Interbellum Literature historian Cor Hermans presents a panorama of modernist writing in the ominous period 1918-1940. The book offers, in full scope, an engaging synthesis of the most stimulating ideas and tendencies in the novels and plays of a wide circle of writers from France (Proust, Gide, Camus, Céline, Tzara, Aragon, Simone Weil), England and Ireland (Virginia Woolf, Orwell, Joyce, Beckett), the USA (Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Miller, O’Neill, Hemingway), Austria-Hungary (Musil, Broch, Kafka, Zweig, Roth), and Germany (Hesse, Jünger, Böll, Thomas Mann). Caught between world wars, they nevertheless succeeded in creating some of the best literature ever. They created a philosophy as well, rejecting bourgeois ‘mechanical’ society, designing escape routes from the nihilism of the times.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Prologue: Imagine Sisyphus
Part 1: Lost Worlds
1 The Algerian
2 A Salesman Called Schoenzeit
3 Becoming Böll
4 Beckett Climbs the Mount of Joy
5 A Farewell to Vienna
6 A Thin Slice of Bois de Boulogne
Part 2: Models of Daring
7 Caligula and the Moon
8 On Meeting Joyce
9 Musil Traverses “Park Nietzsche”
10 Sartre in Berlin and Bouville
11 Norwegian Light
Part 3: Land, Stock, and Fringe
12 Bohemian and Bauer
13 The Grimace of Céline
14 Simone Weil and Franz Kafka: A Forceful Parallel
15 Ernst Jünger’s World of Fire
16 Thomas Mann and Some Afterthoughts
Bibliography
Index
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