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The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile, 1919-?1939 (paperback) : Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile, 1919-1939.

In The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile 1919-1939 Ilse Josepha Lazaroms offers an account of the life and intellectual legacy of Joseph Roth, one of interwar Europe's most critical and modern writers.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lazaroms, Ilse Josepha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : BRILL, 2012.
Colección:Brill's series in Jewish studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Preface Life on the Tip of a Pen; The Legacy of Exile: A Biography of Pain; The Interwar Quandary: Europe and the Jews; Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Telling a Life; Chapter One Mental Captivity. Re-imagining a Lost Heritage; The Jewish Intellectual in Interwar Central Europe; The Apolitical Weimar Intellectual and the Central European Tradition; The Concept of the Jewish Intellectual; Cultivating Marginality; The Material Culture of Exile; The Capitulation of the European Mind; "All Roads Lead to Brody"; Strawberries (1929, 1936); Conclusion
  • Chapter Two Opening up the Crypt. The Political Potential of Nostalgia Nostalgia; Europe's "Jewish Orphans"; Deconstructing Vienna; Diasporic Identities; The Emperor's Tomb (1938); Conclusion; Chapter Three The Lamentations of an "Old Jew." The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer; Exemplary Sufferers; The Creation of Mendel Singer-Job (1930); A Questionable Fate: Hereditary Madness; Narratives of Guilt; Self-Narration, Part 1: The Suffering Jew; Roads to Salvation-The Question of Justice; Conclusion
  • Chapter Four The Double Bind of Self-Narration. Jewish Identity and the Undercurrents of German-Jewish Modernity Theories of Non-Belonging; Self-Inflicted Homelessness; Self-Narration, Part 2: The Austrian Officer; Self-Narration, Part 3: The Hotel Patriot; Literary Cacophony, Linguistic Belonging; The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1940); Conclusion; Chapter Five Prophecies of Unrest. Interwar Europe under an Apocalyptic Lens; On European Shores; Prophetic Encounters; The Antichrist (1934); A Universalist in Paris; Quandaries of a Solitary Mind; Conclusion; Postscript; Bibliography; Index