Interbellum Literature

Writing in a Season of Nihilism
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34179-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 930 g

Reihe: Literary Modernism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hermans, Cor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Nachschlagewerke
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

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

Über Autor(innen)

Cor Hermans received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 2003. He specializes in the history of ideas. He is the author of well received books on Darwin and Social Darwinism (Nieuwezijds, 2003), and on John Stuart Mill in France (Boom, 2008).