TY  - CHAP
A1  - Trabert, Florian
T1  - 'Il mal seme d'Adamo' : Dante's "Inferno" and the problem of the literary representation of evil in Thomas Mann's "Doktor Faustus" and Wolfgang Koeppen's "Der Tod in Rom"
T2  - Metamorphosing Dante : appropriations, manipulations, and rewritings in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati, Fabio Camilletti and Fabian Lampart ; Cultural Inquiry ; 2
N2  - Even if the title of Wolfgang Koeppen's last novel, "Der Tod in Rom", alludes quite obviously to Thomas Mann's novella, "Der Tod in Venedig", Koeppen's text must be understood first and foremost as a response to Mann's most controversial novel, "Doktor Faustus". The novels of Mann and Koeppen rank among the most well-known literary examinations of National Socialism but stand in a complementary relation to each other. "Doktor Faustus", published in 1947, analyses the cultural and intellectual origins of German fascism, while "Der Tod in Rom", published only seven years later in 1954, criticizes the continuity of National Socialist ideologies in post-war Germany. Both authors focus their analyses of fascism on fictional avant-garde composers who seem at first glance detached from any political context. [...] The actual starting point of Florian Trabert's paper, however, is the fact that both novels are preceded by epigraphs taken from Dante's "Inferno". Trabert begins by commenting on the references to Dante in "Doktor Faustus" and then continues by analysing the allusions to the "Commedia" in Koeppen's novel, which constitute, as Trabert demonstrates, a complex constellation among the three texts.
KW  - Dante Alighieri
KW  - Inferno
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - Mann, Thomas
KW  - Doktor Faustus
KW  - Koeppen, Wolfgang
KW  - Der Tod in Rom
KW  - Productive reception
KW  - Good and evil in literature
KW  - Das Böse
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51647
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-516476
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-02/trabert_evil-in-mann-and-koeppen.pdf
SN  - 978-3-85132-617-8
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 89
EP  - 99
PB  - Turia + Kant
CY  - Wien
ER  -