Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-95449-9
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature

This book is the first comparative study of novels by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald, and Antonio Muñoz Molina. Drawing on many literary figures, movements, and traditions, from the Spanish Golden Age, to German Romanticism, to French philosophy, via Jewish modernist literature, Ian Ellison offers a fresh perspective on European fiction published around the turn of the millennium. Reflecting on what makes European fiction European, this book examines how certain novels understand themselves to be culturally and historically late, expressing a melancholy awareness of how the past and present are irreconcilable. Within this framework, however, it considers how backwards-facing, tradition-oriented self-consciousness, burdened by a sense of exhaustion in European culture and the violence of its past, may yet suggest the potential for re-enchantment in the face of obsolescence.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ellison, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 Detecting lateness in Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano.- 3 Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald: A Late Fairy Tale.- 4 Exiled Lateness in Sefarad by Antonio Muñoz Molina.- 5 Concluding Remarks.- Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Ellison divides his time as a DAAD PRIME postdoctoral research fellow between the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, their Paris School of Arts & Culture, France, and the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. This is his first book.