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In the Footsteps of Kierkegaard: Modern Ethical Literature by Józef Wittlin and Paer Lagerkvist

In the Footsteps of Kierkegaard: Modern Ethical Literature by Józef Wittlin and Paer Lagerkvist

Szewczyk-Haake, Katarzyna
Krysztofiak-Kaszyńska, Maria

Hardcover

Series: Studien Zur Germanistik, Skandinavistik Und Uebersetzungskul, Book 23

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631843895
ISBN13: 9783631843895
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Jan 19 2022
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

The book is a comparative study of the works of Józef Wittlin and Pär Lagerkvist, in their youth recognized as prominent expressionist writers, and in their later years making the ethical topic the core of their works. In search for ways of expressing ethical dilemmas, the works of S ren Kierkegaard and his concept of indirect communication turned out to be an extraordinarily powerful tool for both writers, enabling them to explore the matters of ethics and morals in a way substantially different from traditional didactic literature. In the reading of Wittlin's and Lagerkvist's works undertaken in this book, the perspectives of comparative studies and the history of literature complement and make it possible to describe an important, but rarely recognized phenomenon of modern European literature: its ethical variant.

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