Private anarchy : impossible community and the outsider's monologue in German experimental fiction / Paul Buchholz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchholz, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landauer, Gustav, 1870-1919--Criticism and interpretation.

Landauer, Gustav.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Criticism and interpretation.

Kafka, Franz.

Bernhard, Thomas--Criticism and interpretation.

Bernhard, Thomas.

Hilbig, Wolfgang, 1941-2007--Criticism and interpretation.

Hilbig, Wolfgang.

Experimental fiction, German--History and criticism.

Experimental fiction, German.

Monologues in literature.

Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2018]

Summary:

European social theorists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries tended to define modernity as a condition of heightened alienation in which traditional community is replaced by a regime of self‑interested individualism and collective isolation.

Contents:

Introduction

Voices of the vacuum: monologue in Schopenhauer, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche

Unworldly anarchism: Gustav Landauer's nihilist community

Society of nobodies: Franz Kafka and the communal vacuum

Monologue overgrown: the language of hypertrophy in Thomas Bernhard's Leichtlebig

Nobody's friends: outsider community in Wolfgang Hilbig's prose

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780810136649

0810136643

OCLC:

1019996361