2. Günter Grass: Rhythms of a Fictitious Testimony

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Overture. German Catastrophe and the Rebirth of Musical Biography 1
5. 1. Thomas Mann: Dissonance as a Mode of Documentation 15
6. Interlude I. Siegfried: Atonality and Decentralized Narrative 43
7. 2. Günter Grass: Rhythms of a Fictitious Testimony 51
8. Interlude II. Clown: Ironic Tune between Memory and Oblivion 77
9. 3. Ingeborg Bachmann: The Resonance of Trauma 83
10. Interlude III. Pianist: Austria from a Musician’s Perspective 109
11. 4. Thomas Bernhard: Writing, Playing, and the Compulsion to Repeat 115
12. Interlude IV. Composer: Sound Transfiguration after Reunification 143
13. Coda. The End of Musical Biography? 149
14. Bibliography 153
15. Index 169