Infernal poetics: Peter Weiss and the problem of postwar authorship.(Critical essay)

The Germanic Review | March 22, 2007| | Copyright

ABSTRACT: The article investigates the relationship between grammatical temporality and historical fiction in the work of Peter Weiss. It proposes a notion of redemptive ambiguity at the level of tense, with which Weiss's language actively resists the claustrophobia of a posthistorical (because of post-Auschwitz) eversame. It then goes on to extrapolate, from this grammatically resistant aesthetics, a Weissian critique of linguistic fluency and political pragmatism as embodied, for Weiss, by his contemporary Gunter Grass.

Keywords: grammatical temporality, Gunter ...

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