"Complex Pleasure" deals with questions of literary feeling in
eight major German writers--Lessing, Kant, Holderlin, Nietzsche,
Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin. On the basis of close readings
of these authors Stanley Corngold makes vivid the following ideas:
that where there is literature there is complex pleasure; that this
pleasure is complex because it involves the impression of a
disclosure; that this thought is foremost in the minds of a number
of canonical writers; that important literary works in the German
tradition--fiction, poetry, critique--can be illuminated through
their treatment of literary feeling; and, finally, that the
conceptual terms for these forms of feeling continually vary.
The types of feeling treated in "Complex Pleasure" include wit (the
startling perception of likeness) and the disinterested pleasure of
aesthetic judgment; Holderlin's "swift conceptual grasp," in which
"the "tempo" of the process of thought is stressed"; "artistic
imagination," mood, sadistic enjoyment, rapturous distraction,
homonymic dissonance, and courage as a mode of literary experience.
At the same time, through the deftness, range, and surprise of its
execution, the book itself conveys complex pleasure. The reader
will also find fascinating, hitherto untranslated material by
Nietzsche ("On Moods") and Kafka (important sections from his
journals and from his unfinished novel "The Boy Who Sank Out of
Sight").
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