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Lost in the Shadow of the Word - Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe (Paperback)
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Lost in the Shadow of the Word - Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe (Paperback)
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Scholars of modernism have long addressed how literature, painting,
and music reflected the radical reconceptualization of space and
time in the early twentieth century-a veritable revolution in both
physics and philosophy that has been characterized as precipitating
an "epistemic trauma" around the world. In this wide-ranging study,
Benjamin Paloff contends that writers in Central and Eastern Europe
felt this impact quite distinctly from their counterparts in
Western Europe. For the latter, the destabilization of traditional
notions of space and time inspired works that saw in it a new kind
of freedom. However, for many Central and Eastern European authors,
who were writing from within public discourses about how to
construct new social realities, the need for escape met the
realization that there was both nowhere to escape to and no stable
delineation of what to escape from. In reading the prose and poetry
of Czech, Polish, and Russian writers, Paloff imbues the term
"Kafkaesque" with a complexity so far missing from our
understanding of this moment in literary history.
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