Der Schriftsteller Franz Xaver Kappus als Vertreter der literarischen Moderne im Banat
- In comparison to the Transsylvanian-Saxon or to the German-speaking Bukowina literature the modernists exerted a more reduced influence on the literature of the Banat Swabians. Franz Xaver Kappus (1883-1966) influenced the literary modernists in the Western part of Romania especially through his expressionistic texts. He became famous thanks to his correspondence with Rainer Maria Rilke. The masterpiece Die lebenden Vierzehn (The Fourteeen Survivors) (1918) is swayed by a collective catastrophe and represents a certain kind of utopia, which anticipates the end of the world. A dread causing image with a peculiar unreality shapes the event. Kappus’ fantasy does not shrink back from images of dread and horror. As in the expressionistic literature any destruction of the harmonious beautiful principle comes about in dread. The grotesque features belong to the expressionistic character of the book. It is interesting that the dreadful and the grotesque show their demonic side and with it they destroy the familiar reality. Such a development demonstrates that Kappus follows a tradition to which also E. T. A. Hoffmann, Frank Wedekind, Franz Kafka or Georg Heym belong. There are also streaks of naturalism in the novel.
Author: | Roxana NubertGND, Ana-Maria Dascălu-RomițanORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-707942 |
URL: | http://uniblaga.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/48/NubertDascaluRomitan.pdf |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.2478/gb-2022-0005 |
ISSN: | 2247-4633 |
ISSN: | 1454-5144 |
Parent Title (German): | Germanistische Beiträge |
Publisher: | Lehrstuhl für Germanistik an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Sibiu/Hermannstadt |
Place of publication: | Sibiu / Hermannstadt |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | German |
Year of Completion: | 2022 |
Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2022/12/01 |
Tag: | Franz Xaver Kappus; dread; end of the world; expressionistic literature; grotesque; naturalism; primitiveness; utopia |
Volume: | 48 |
Page Number: | 30 |
First Page: | 84 |
Last Page: | 113 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 505357585 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 83 Deutsche und verwandte Literaturen / 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur |
Sammlungen: | Germanistik / Germanistik, Deutsche Sprache und Literatur |
Germanistik / GiNDok | |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Germanistische Beiträge / Germanistische Beiträge 48.2022 |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-710579 |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |