Europa in Alfred Döblins Amazonas-Trilogie

Diagnose eines kranken Kontinents
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-89971-817-1
Verlag: V&R unipress

Buch, Deutsch, Band Band 335, 299 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

Reihe: Palaestra

The topos of Europe's lingering illness is omnipresent in Alfred Döblin's novel "Amazonas". The novel portrays the course of European modernism as the history of a disease, breaking out in the Age of Discovery and reaching its catastrophic climax in the barbarity of Fascism. Exaggerated rationalism, materialism and nihilism culminate in an excessive will to power and rule and senseless, crazy (self-) destruction. Europe and the Europeans seem to be denied any alternative. This diagnosis, made with pen and paper by the doctor and writer Döblin is crushing, but not final.Taking Döblin's poetological, cultural-philosophical and anthropological writings into account, Vera Hildenbrandt sees "Amazonas" as a laboratory in which Döblin gets to the root of the disease of his time by examining Europe and Europeans in different epochs and from numerous different angles. At the same time he shows ways and means of conceiving of a new, different Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hildenbrandt, Vera

Weitere Mitwirkende

Detering, Heinrich

Lamping, Dieter

Lauer, Gerhard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation

Leseproben

The topos of Europe's lingering illness is omnipresent in Alfred Döblin's novel "Amazonas". The novel portrays the course of European modernism as the history of a disease, breaking out in the Age of Discovery and reaching its catastrophic climax in the barbarity of Fascism. Exaggerated rationalism, materialism and nihilism culminate in an excessive will to power and rule and senseless, crazy (self-) destruction. Europe and the Europeans seem to be denied any alternative. This diagnosis, made with pen and paper by the doctor and writer Döblin is crushing, but not final.Taking Döblin's poetological, cultural-philosophical and anthropological writings into account, Vera Hildenbrandt sees "Amazonas" as a laboratory in which Döblin gets to the root of the disease of his time by examining Europe and Europeans in different epochs and from numerous different angles. At the same time he shows ways and means of conceiving of a new, different Europe.>

Über Autor(innen)

Hildenbrandt, Vera
Dr. Vera Hildenbrandt ist als Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Kompetenzzentrum für elektronische Erschließungs- und Publikationsverfahren in den Geisteswissenschaften an der Universität Trier tätig.

Lamping, Dieter
Dr. phil. Dieter Lamping ist Professor für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. Er war u.a. Vorsitzender des Interdisziplinären Arbeitskreises Jüdische Studien und Sprecher des Zentrums für Interkulturelle Studien der Universität Mainz und ist von 2008-2009 Fellow am Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. Er hat zahlreiche Bücher zur Literatur der Moderne und zur Theorie und Geschichte der Lyrik veröffentlicht.