Der «habsburgische Mythos» und die kakanische Tradition. Wie Claudio Magris’ Deutung der Wiener Moderne von dieser selbst geprägt ist

While recent scholarship stresses the modernism of the literature of Viennese Modernism, in the 1960s Claudio Magris highlighted its fundamental regressivity – a diagnosis that today may appear surprising. The following contribution seeks to explore why the young Magris focused on the retrospective...

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Published in:Prospero (Trieste, Italy) Italy), 2019-01 (24)
Main Author: Wolf, Norbert Christian
Format: Article
Language:ger
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Modernism
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Summary:While recent scholarship stresses the modernism of the literature of Viennese Modernism, in the 1960s Claudio Magris highlighted its fundamental regressivity – a diagnosis that today may appear surprising. The following contribution seeks to explore why the young Magris focused on the retrospective sentimentality of modern Austrian culture rather than its forward-looking traits. This will be investigated through the reconstruction of the intellectual tradition within which he developed his thesis of the “Habsburg myth”.
ISSN:1123-2684
2283-6438
DOI:10.13137/2283-6438/29429