„Einer bricht in dich ein!“ Das Mensch-Gott-Verhältnis in der Novelle Riverside von Patrick Roth

• Authors: Ewa Anna Piasta

Title variants

EN

“You are being broken into!”: The God-man relationship in Patrick Roth’s novella Riverside

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The novella Riverside illustrates the reception of the Bible in contemporary literature and belongs in the thematic field of “theology and literature”. The first part of the article outlines research done in this field, including work by both Polish and German scholars. The second part presents the major aspects of Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialogue, in which the encounter and personal relationship are constitutive features of religious experience. Buber’s theory serves as a theoretical basis for an analysis of the God-man relationship in the novella at issue. The third part provides a study in the development of this relationship in the case of the novella’s protagonist, highlighting numerous Biblical references in stylistics, motifs and axiology.

Keywords

EN

Novelle; Literatur; Theologie; Gott; Patrick Roth; short story; literature; theology; God

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Germanica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 140
• Pages: 123 - 138

Contributors

author

Ewa Anna Piasta

• Jan-Kochanowski-Universität, Kielce