Download PDF by Marjorie Perloff: Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg

By Marjorie Perloff

Among the bright writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual global of the Austro-Hungarian Empire have been Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of worldwide battle I integrated the unexpected lack of the geographical entity into which that they had been born: in 1918, the empire was once dissolved in a single day, leaving Austria a small, fragile republic that might final merely 20 years prior to being annexed by way of Hitler’s 3rd Reich. during this significant reconsideration of eu modernism, Marjorie Perloff identifies and explores the classy global that emerged from the rubble of Vienna and different former Habsburg territories—an “Austro-Modernism” that produced an enormous physique of drama, fiction, poetry, and autobiography.

Perloff explores works starting from Karl Kraus’s drama The final Days of Mankind and Elias Canetti’s memoir The Tongue Set Free to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notebooks and Paul Celan’s lyric poetry. all through, she exhibits that Austro-Modernist literature is characterised much less by way of the formal and technical innovations of a modernism everyday to us within the paintings of  Joyce and Pound, Dada and Futurism, than via an intensive irony underneath a possible traditional floor, an acute experience of exile, and a sensibility extra erotic and quixotic than that of its German contemporaries. Skeptical and dissatisfied, Austro-Modernism prefers to invite questions instead of formulate answers.

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