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Eine »freundlich-feindliche Durchdringung«

Musil und Broch im Wien der 1930er Jahre
  • Norbert Christian Wolf
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2023/2024
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Abstract

This essay examines the complex relationship between Robert Musil and Hermann Broch by rereading the surviving letters and notes between the two authors as well as remarks by third parties. As a methodological basis, it uses a cultural-sociological approach based on Pierre Bourdieu, analysing the different strategies of Musil and Broch in their struggle to be recognized and establish themselves in the literary field in relation to their field positions. In this way, ›literature-external‹ factors such as the financial problems of freelance writers are linked with ›internal‹ ones, namely, poetological questions about whether Musil’s or Broch’s concept of the intellectual novel is more appropriate to modernity and how the discourses of Wissenschaft should be processed in it.

Abstract

This essay examines the complex relationship between Robert Musil and Hermann Broch by rereading the surviving letters and notes between the two authors as well as remarks by third parties. As a methodological basis, it uses a cultural-sociological approach based on Pierre Bourdieu, analysing the different strategies of Musil and Broch in their struggle to be recognized and establish themselves in the literary field in relation to their field positions. In this way, ›literature-external‹ factors such as the financial problems of freelance writers are linked with ›internal‹ ones, namely, poetological questions about whether Musil’s or Broch’s concept of the intellectual novel is more appropriate to modernity and how the discourses of Wissenschaft should be processed in it.

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