03119nam 2200529 450 991082139830332120230809224859.090-04-34180-310.1163/9789004341807(CKB)3710000001417302(MiAaPQ)EBC4920871 2017030825(nllekb)BRILL9789004341807(EXLCZ)99371000000141730220170628d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierInterbellum literature writing in a season of nihilism /by Cor HermansLeiden ;Boston :Brill,2017.1 online resource (555 pages)Literary modernism ;v. 490-04-34179-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: Imagine Sisyphus -- Lost Worlds -- The Algerian -- A Salesman Called Schoenzeit -- Becoming Böll -- Beckett Climbs the Mount of Joy -- A Farewell to Vienna -- A Thin Slice of Bois de Boulogne -- Models of Daring -- Caligula and the Moon -- On Meeting Joyce -- Musil Traverses “Park Nietzsche” -- Sartre in Berlin and Bouville -- Norwegian Light -- Land, Stock, and Fringe -- Bohemian and Bauer -- The Grimace of Céline -- Simone Weil and Franz Kafka: A Forceful Parallel -- Ernst Jünger’s World of Fire -- Thomas Mann and Some Afterthoughts.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.Literary Modernism4.Modernism (Literature)EuropeModernism (Literature)United StatesLiterature, Modern20th centuryHistory and criticismEuropean literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)Modernism (Literature)Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.European literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.809/.042Hermans Cornelis Andreas Marie1594106NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910821398303321Interbellum literature3914538UNINA