04419nam 2200793 450 991079810520332120230808192924.03-11-046046-73-11-046093-910.1515/9783110460933(CKB)3710000000656188(EBL)4517760(SSID)ssj0001663127(PQKBManifestationID)16394117(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001663127(PQKBWorkID)14945889(PQKB)10103522(PQKBManifestationID)16446946(PQKB)23274926(MiAaPQ)EBC4517760(DE-B1597)461748(OCoLC)945767475(OCoLC)954879710(DE-B1597)9783110460933(Au-PeEL)EBL4517760(CaPaEBR)ebr11209848(CaONFJC)MIL919705(EXLCZ)99371000000065618820160523h20162016 uy 1engur|nu---|u||utxtccrMusical biographies the music of memory in post-1945 German literature /Michal Ben-HorinBerlin, [Germany] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter,2016.©20161 online resource (182 p.)Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies ;Volume 10Description based upon print version of record.3-11-046094-7 3-11-045795-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Acknowledgments --Contents --Overture. German Catastrophe and the Rebirth of Musical Biography --1. Thomas Mann: Dissonance as a Mode of Documentation --Interlude I. Siegfried: Atonality and Decentralized Narrative --2. Günter Grass: Rhythms of a Fictitious Testimony --Interlude II. Clown: Ironic Tune between Memory and Oblivion --3. Ingeborg Bachmann: The Resonance of Trauma --Interlude III. Pianist: Austria from a Musician's Perspective --4. Thomas Bernhard: Writing, Playing, and the Compulsion to Repeat --Interlude IV. Composer: Sound Transfiguration after Reunification --Coda. The End of Musical Biography? --Bibliography --IndexSince the second half of the twentieth century various routes, including history and literature, are offered in dealing with the catastrophe of World War II and the Holocaust. Historiographies and novels are of course written with words; how can they bear witness to and reverberate with traumatic experience that escapes or resists language? In search for an alternative mode of expression and representation, this volume focuses on postwar German and Austrian writers who made use of music in their exploration of the National Socialist past. Their works invoke, however, new questions: What happens when we cross the line between narration and documentation, and between memory and a musical piece? How does identification and fascination affect our reading of the text? What kind of ethical issues do these testimonies raise? As this volume shows, reading these musical biographies is both troubling and compelling since they 'fail' to come to terms with the past. In playing the haunting music that does not let us put the matter to rest, they call into question not only the exclusion of personal stories by official narratives, but also challenge writers' and readers' most intimate perspectives on an unmasterable past.Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ;Volume 10.Music and literatureGermanyHistory20th centuryMusic and literatureAustriaHistory20th centuryGerman fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismMemory in literatureMusic in literatureGerman culture.Holocaust.Musical Poetics.narrative.Music and literatureHistoryMusic and literatureHistoryGerman fictionHistory and criticism.Memory in literature.Music in literature.830.9/3578Ben-Horin Michal1572940MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798105203321Musical biographies3848352UNINA