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Literature and Politics: Selected Writings

Literature and Politics: Selected Writings

Musil, Robert
Amann, Klaus
Grill, Genese

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Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 1940625548
ISBN13: 9781940625546
Publisher: Contra Mundum Press
Published: Mar 31 2023
Pages: 562
Weight: 1.33
Height: 1.25 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Literature and Politics presents Robert Musil's writings on the relationship between literature and politics from World War I through World War II and elucidates his personal struggle to bear witness during the Age of Totalitarianism. In essays, addresses, aphorisms, and unpublished notes on contemporary events, Musil charts the increasing dangers to artists and ethical thinkers of extreme ideological conscription, the subtle and not so subtle changes in public and political discourse, the epoch-making events and dire existential threats of his times. Musil acts as a cultural seismographer, interrogating causes and symptoms in himself and his world, as he moves between Nazi Germany and pre- and post-Anschlu Austria, ultimately escaping to Switzerland where he and his Jewish wife, Martha, lived in exile until his death in 1942. The writings question concepts of race, identity, and nation, and untangle the complex relationship between nation and artist and between the individual and the collective, celebrating the rich and irreducible nature of individual creative work as the bulwark of a free, ethical, and pluralistic society.

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