The Heart of Europe: Essays on Literature and Ideology

Edward Timms, J. P. Stern

The Modern Language Review · 1994 · 12 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Literature and ideology Bolzano's Bohemia words are also deeds on Prague German literature the education of the master race, or history in Robert Musil's Young Toerless the ideas of 1914 (Thomas Mann) war and the comic muse (on Hasek's Good Soldier Sveik and Heller's Catch 22) the rise and fall of random persons (on Spengler and Auerbach) Freud by a Freudian inauthenticity - theory and practice (on Heidegger) Guenter Grass' uniqueness the Matljary diary (Kafka) The White Rose (the Munich students' conspiracy of 1942-43) the gypsies the man without ideology (on Johann Georg Elser) notes on the German army Bitburg in praise of integrity the end of the Prague Spring a crisis of identity revising the German past? the end of German communism what is German? Havel's castle Canetti's later work Marxism on stilts (on Ernst Bloch) Wittgenstein in context.