The literary scholar Alfrun Kliems explores the aesthetic
strategies of Eastern European underground literature, art, film
and music in the decades before and after the fall of communism,
ranging from the 'father' of Prague Underground, Egon Bondy, to the
neo-Dada Club of Polish Losers in Berlin. The works she considers
are "underground" in the sense that they were produced illegally,
or were received as subversive after the regimes had fallen. Her
study challenges common notions of 'Underground' as an umbrella
term for nonconformism. Rather, it depicts it as a sociopoetic
reflection of modernity, intimately linked to urban settings, with
tropes and aesthetic procedures related to Surrealism, Dadaism,
Expressionism, and, above all, pop and counterculture. The author
discusses these commonalities and distinctions in Czech, Polish,
Slovak, Ukrainian, Russian, and German authors, musicians, and
filmmakers. She identifies intertextual relations across languages
and generations, and situates her findings in a transatlantic
context (including the Beat Generation, Susan Sontag, Neil Young)
and the historical framework of Romanticism and modernity
(including Baudelaire and Brecht). Despite this wide brief, the
book never loses sight of its core message: Underground is no
arbitrary expression of discontent, but rather the result of a
fundamental conflict at the socio-philosophical roots of modernity.
General
Imprint: |
Central European University Press
|
Country of origin: |
Hungary |
Series: |
Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe |
Release date: |
March 2021 |
First published: |
2021 |
Authors: |
Alfrun Kliems
(Professor of West Slavonic Literatures and Cultures)
|
Translators: |
Jake Schneider
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Dimensions: |
234 x 159 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
Pages: |
340 |
ISBN-13: |
978-963-386-397-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literature: history & criticism >
Literary studies >
From 1900
|
LSN: |
963-386-397-X |
Barcode: |
9789633863978 |
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