Mapping the Unreal: Max Blecher in the Shadow of the Avant-garde
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Gabriela Glăvan
Abstract
Max Blecher, a paradigmatic case of marginality, has been the subject of recent critical reevaluations that established his canonic status in modern Romanian literature. His novel Occurrence in the Immediate Unreality (1936) bears not only the mark of Blecher’s affinity with the Avant-garde, but of his intense and original perception of issues pertaining to identity and the construction of the self. His status as a Jewish writer struggling for authenticity and recognition in the complex historical context preceding World War II and the instauration of Communism adds depth and detail to a dramatic biography lying in the background of his fiction. Peripheral spaces, childhood and immaturity, the revelation of sexuality and death become decisive elements in a metaphysical adventure that is simultaneously an initiation and a metamorphosis. A narrative that validates the author’s Surrealist lineage, Occurrence in the Immediate Unreality favors a comparative perspective that equally connects Max Blecher to a Central and Eastern-European framework.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Contributions
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- On Concepts and Naps
- Reading Machines: On the Surface of Meaning – Beyond the Surface of Discourse
- Paper Trails
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Contributions
- Mapping the Unreal: Max Blecher in the Shadow of the Avant-garde
- On Concepts and Naps
- Reading Machines: On the Surface of Meaning – Beyond the Surface of Discourse
- Paper Trails
- Attending the Dying: Images of Compassion
- Reading Allegory and Nature in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Vision of the Language of Nature
- Extending the Battlefield: Genocide and the Family in Goretti Kyomuhendo’s Secrets No More
- Form und Formauflösung nach Paul Ernst: Die Suche nach einem sittlichen Formideal
- The Hot-House Atmosphere of Cell Number 40[4]: Space and Identity in Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon
- «Une promesse faite à des nègres serait sans valeur»
- Reviews
- Michael Neecke und Lu Jiang (Hrsg.): „Unübersetzbar?“ Zur Kritik der literarischen Übersetzung, Hamburg, Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2013. Ravi Kumar (ed.): The Role of Translation in Nation Building, New Delhi: Modlingua, 2012.
- Tomáš Kubíček, Jan Wiendl (Hgg.), Moderna/Moderny, Olomouc: UPOL 2013. ISBN 978-80-244-3418-6.
- Jiang Chengyong and Wu Yuesu: A Thematic Exploration of 20th Century Western Literature. Beijing: China’s Social Sciences Press, 2013.
- Letteratura e geografia. Atlanti, modelli, letture. A cura di Francesco Fiorentino e Carla Solivetti. Macerata: Quodlibet/Studio 2012, 226 Seiten. Raumlektüren. Der Spatial Turn und die Literatur der Moderne, hg. von Tim Mehigan, Alan Corkhill. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag 2013, 320 Seiten.
- Adele Parker / Stephenie Young (eds.): Transnationalism and Resistance: Experience and Experiment in Women’s Writing. Amsterdam, New York, NY: Rodopi, 2013, 301 Seiten
- Jan Wilm, Mark Nixon (eds.). Samuel Beckett und die deutsche Literatur. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2013.
- Kirsten Sandrock and Owain Wright (eds.): Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions. Amsterdam/New York, Rodopi, 2013, pp. 240, ISBN 978-90-420-3635-2
- Amir Eshel, Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 2013, 355 pages. Amir Eshel, Zukünftigkeit. Die zeitgenössische Literatur und die Vergangenheit. Aus dem Englischen von Irmgard Hölscher, Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012, 343 Seiten.
- Christian Kiening, Heinrich Adolf (Hg.): Der absolute Film. Dokumente der Medienavantgarde (1912–1936). (Reihe Medienwandel – Medienwechsel – Medienwissen. Band 25). Zürich: Chronos Verlag, 2012, 512 Seiten
- Claudia Gronemann, Tanja Schwan, Cornelia Sieber (Hgg.), Strategien von Autorschaft in der Romania. Zur Neukonzipierung einer Kategorie im Rahmen literatur-, kultur- und medienwissenschaftlich basierter Geschlechtertheorien, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012.
- Handbuch Komparatistik. Theorien, Arbeitsfelder, Wissenspraxis, hg. v. Rüdiger Zymner u. Achim Hölter, Stuttgart/Weimar: Verlag J.B. Metzler, 2013.
