AESTHETICS OF VIOLENCE IN TIM STAFFEL'S NOVELS (Timm Staffel. Aesthetik der Gewalt)

• Authors: Szalagiewicz Marek
• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the work of a contemporary German writer Tim Staffel in context of the recent German literature and in particular the literature about the German reunification (Wendeliteratur). The analysis of the novels of Tim Staffel show the relationship between the aesthetics of violence used by the author and the problem of identity crisis described in his works. The comparison of Staffels novel Terrordrom with the discourse of the Wenderoman reveals differences in perception of the problems of identity and ideological crisis, which express themselves in a different construction of the presented world and time and a different approach to the theme of violence. This analysis and interpretation aims to show Staffels writing as attempt to go beyond the discourse of the Wendeliteratur and the discourse of a national literature in general. In this sense Terrordrom is not only an anti-utopian vision, an apocalyptic scenario of the future and the war of all against all, but also a diagnosis of the contemporary human condition and warning against the increasing influence of mass media on reality creation. Staffel points out in his novel the fact, that in such a media-generated reality, violence seems to be the last human reaction to a dehumanized world.

Keywords

EN

HYPERREALITY; IDENTITY CRISIS; MASS MEDIA; POST-MODERN LITERATURE; POSTMODERNISM; SIMULATION; TERRORISM; VIOLENCE

• Publisher: Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN, Społeczna Akademia Nauk w Łodzi
• Journal: Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 411-429
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szalagiewicz Marek

• Marek Szalagiewicz, Uniwersytet Im. Adama Mickiewicza, Instytut Filologii Germanskiej, Zakład Literatury i Kultury Austriackiej, Al. Niepodleglosci 4, 61-874 Poznan, Poland

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