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Edge of Irony (Hardcover)
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Edge of Irony (Hardcover)
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Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the
multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them,
the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the
geographical entity into which they had been born: in 1918, the
empire was dissolved overnight, leaving Austria a small, fragile
republic that would last only twenty years before being annexed by
Hitler's Third Reich. In this major reconsideration of European
modernism, Marjorie Perloff identifies and explores the aesthetic
world that emerged from the rubble of Vienna and other former
Habsburg territories--an "Austro-Modernism" that produced a major
body of drama, fiction, poetry, and autobiography. Perloff explores
works ranging from Karl Kraus's drama The Last Days of Mankind and
Elias Canetti's memoir The Tongue Set Free to Ludwig Wittgenstein's
notebooks and Paul Celan's lyric poetry. Throughout, she shows that
Austro-Modernist literature is characterized less by the formal and
technical inventions of a modernism familiar to us in the work of
Joyce and Pound, Dada and Futurism, than by a radical irony beneath
a seemingly conventional surface, an acute sense of exile, and a
sensibility more erotic and quixotic than that of its German
contemporaries. Skeptical and disillusioned, Austro-Modernism
prefers to ask questions rather than formulate answers.
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