The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Notes on contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 13
Chronology......Page 16
A note concerning translations and bibliographical data......Page 25
1 The German novel in the long twentieth century......Page 27
NOTES......Page 39
FURTHER READING......Page 40
2 Contexts of the novel: society, politics and culture in German-speaking Europe, 1870 to the present......Page 41
NOTES......Page 54
Working-class culture......Page 55
Switzerland......Page 56
3 The novel in Wilhelmine Germany: from realism to satire......Page 57
FURTHER READING......Page 70
4 Gender anxiety and the shaping of the self in some modernist writers: Musil, Hesse, Hofmannsthal, Jahnn......Page 72
FURTHER READING......Page 86
5 Franz Kafka: the radical modernist......Page 88
NOTES......Page 100
FURTHER READING......Page 101
6 Modernism and the Bildungsroman: Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain......Page 103
FURTHER READING......Page 118
7 Apocalypse and utopia in the Austrian novel of the 1930s: Hermann Broch and Robert Musil......Page 119
NOTES......Page 134
FURTHER READING......Page 135
8 Images of the city......Page 136
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge......Page 140
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice......Page 142
Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz......Page 143
Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities......Page 145
Uwe Johnson, Anniversaries......Page 147
FURTHER READING......Page 148
9 Women writers in the ‘Golden’ Twenties......Page 149
Vicki Baum: modernity, romance and modernism......Page 150
Gabriele Tergit: a dance of death......Page 153
Irmgard Keun: girls in the city......Page 154
Marieluise Fleißer: country girls and the modern world......Page 158
NOTES......Page 162
FURTHER READING......Page 163
10 The First World War and its aftermath in the German novel......Page 164
NOTES......Page 175
FURTHER READING......Page 177
11 The German novel during the Third Reich......Page 178
NOTES......Page 191
FURTHER READING......Page 192
12 History, memory, fiction after the Second World War......Page 193
NOTES......Page 210
FURTHER READING......Page 211
13 Aesthetics and resistance: Böll, Grass, Weiss......Page 213
PRIMARY TEXTS......Page 226
FURTHER READING......Page 227
14 The kleiner Mann and modern times: from Fallada to Walser......Page 228
Heinrich Böll......Page 242
Martin Walser......Page 243
15 The ‘critical’ novel in the GDR......Page 244
NOTES......Page 256
FURTHER READING......Page 257
16 Identity and authenticity in Swiss and Austrian novels of the postwar era: Max Frisch and Peter Handke......Page 258
Handke......Page 273
17 Subjectivity and women’s writing of the 1970s and early 1980s......Page 275
NOTES......Page 289
FURTHER READING......Page 290
18 The postmodern German novel......Page 292
FURTHER READING......Page 305
INDEX......Page 306