The Pathos of the Real: On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century

(Part of the Rethinking Theory Series)

by Robert Buch

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This book is about the ambition, in a set of paradigmatic writers of the twentieth century, to simultaneously enlist and break the spell of the real--their fascination with the spectacle of violence and suffering--and the difficulties involved in capturing this kind of excess by aesthetic means.

The works at the center of this study--by Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, Claude Simon, Peter Weiss, and Heiner M ller--zero in on scenes of agony,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801897564

ISBN13:9780801897566

Release Date:December 2010

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"

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