Shifting viewpoints : Cervantes in twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century literature written in German / Gabriele Eckart, Meg H. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eckart, Gabriele, author.

Contributor:

Brown, Meg H., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Influence.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

German literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

viii, 258 pages ; 22 cmp. cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Summary:

This study shows that Cervantes's works actively influenced the literature of a number of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century writers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. This time period was marked by numerous significant events, including World War I, the first attempts at democracy, the rise of the Nazis, World War II, the division of Germany, and the eventual reunification of Germany. Representations of characters created by Cervantes reflect the shifting viewpoints of monarchism, imperialism, communism, fascism, socialism, and capitalism. A number of German-speaking authors of this time creatively modify Don Quixote, vacillating between regarding Don Quixote as a fool or a hero. The emphasis here is on the question of how an author uses Cervantes's Don Quixote and The Conversation of the Dogs to come to terms with his or her own preoccupations in a given socio-political context. This book explores literary works by German-speaking authors that engage in an intertextual play with a text written by Cervantes. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Don Quixote in Germany's Weimar Republic 1900-1933 9

Ernst Toller's Der entfesselte Wotan

Ernst Jiinger's Das abenteuerliche Herz

Chapter 2 Don Quixote in Exile Literature 27

Part 1 Bruno Frank (Cervantes) and Others

Part 2 Thomas Mann ("Meerfahrt mit Don Quijote")

Part 3 Gustav Regler (Ohr des Malchus and Juanita)

Chapter 3 Don Quixote in West Germany 67

Part 1 Wolfdietrich Schnurre ("Wir sind Don Quichotte und Sancho Pansa")

Part 2 Paul Schallück (Don Quichotte in Köln)

Part 3 Margarete Hannsmann (Chauffeur bei Don Quijote: Wie hap Grieshaber in den Bauemkrieg zog)

Chapter 4 Don Quixote in East Germany 87

Part 1 East German Poetry

Part 2 Fritz Rudolf Fries's Stannebein Novels (Das Luft-Schiff and Die Väter im Kino)

Part 3 Günther Rücker (Der Nachbar des Herm Panza)

Chapter 5 The Reception of Cervantes in Post-Wall Germany 135

Part 1 Erich Loest ("Wider die Dunkelmänner unserer Zeit") Martin Mosebach (Meister Peters Puppenspiel), and Others

Part 2 Volker Braun (Der Wendehals oder Trotzdestonichts and Machwerk oder das Schichthuch des Flick von Lauchhammer)

Chapter 6 Don Quixote in Austria 167

Part 1 Joseph Roth (Die Biiste des Kaisers) Elias Canetti (Die Blendung)

Part 2 Franz Kafka ("Die Wahrheit iiber Sancho Pansa") Stephan Wackwitz (Die Wahrheit iiber Sancho Pansa)

Part 3 Wilhelm Muster (Der Tod kommt ohne Trommel)

Part 4 Peter Handke (Der Bildverlust: oder Durch die Sierra de Gredos)

Chapter 7 Don Quixote and The Conversation of the Dogs in Switzerland 221

Part 1 Maja Beutier (Das Werk oder Doña Quichotte)

Part 2 Zsuzsanna Gahse (Berganza).

ISBN:

9781443851350

1443851353

OCLC:

866584138

Publisher Number:

99956946009