RICHARD WEINER AND THE AVANT-GARDE

• Authors: Zajac P.
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Apart from poets like R. M. Rilke, P. Valéry, T. S. Eliot, O. Mandelshtam, S. Lörincz or V. Holan the late modern pendant to the avant-garde includes also prose-writers, e. g. Richard Weiner. Contrary to the avant-garde aesthetics of blasphemy and shock, he develops the aesthetics of terror. His works, especially the short story 'An Empty Chair' are based on some unexplainable guilt, not caused by any act of the individual, bound to endless horror: every time one seems to reach its bottom there is only more terror, emptiness and nothingness. Weiner's perception of sublimeness as tremor and fear of the magnificence of the terrible oscillates between negative theology of emptiness and nothingness and the aesthetics of mythical epiphany and unity possible exclusively in a dream.

Keywords

EN

AESTHETICS OF SUBLIMENESS; AESTHETICS OF TERROR; AVANT-GARDE; LATE MODERNITY

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovak Review. A Review of World Literature Research
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 25-33
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zajac P.

• P. Zajac, Ústav slovenskej literatúry SAV, Konventná 13, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06SKAAAA00962218