This book charts the history of a distinct strain of European
literary modernism that emerged out of a radical re-engagement with
late nineteenth-century language scepticism. Focusing first on the
literary and philosophical strands of this language-sceptical
tradition, the book proceeds to trace the various forms of
linguistic negativism deployed by European writers in the interwar
and post-war years, including Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, Samuel
Beckett, Maurice Blanchot, Paul Celan, and W. G. Sebald. Through
close analyses of these and other writers' attempts to capture an
'unspeakable' experience, Language and Negativity in European
Modernism explores the remarkable literary attempt to deploy the
negative potentialities of language in order to articulate an
experience of what, shortly after the Second World War, Beckett
described as a vision of 'humanity in ruins'.
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