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The Dear Purchase

The Dear Purchase

Stern, J. P.
Boyle, Nicholas

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in German

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521433304
ISBN13: 9780521433303
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 2 1995
Pages: 468
Weight: 1.43
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.81 Depth: 8.81
Language: English
Completed shortly before Professor Stern's death in 1991, this book studies works by twelve major writers of German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke, in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores the theme of the dear purchase, an ideal of moral strenuousness and sacrifice seen as characteristic of Germany after Nietzsche, and reveals the underlying flaw in this notion as a self-justifying value. Finally, it juxtaposes Mann's Felix Krull and Kafka's story Josephine as a deliverance from the value-system of the title.

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