TY  - GEN
A1  - Anderson, David
T1  - 'Novel-seeming goods': rereading Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' and Patrick Süskind's 'Das Parfum' 40 years later
T2  - ZfL Blog : Blog des Leibniz-Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin
N2  - Jameson argues that in 'a society bereft of all historicity', 'what used to be the historical novel can no longer set out to represent the historical past'. The 'postmodern fate' of the historical novel is to be forced to come to terms with 'a new and original historical situation in which we are condemned to seek History by way of our own pop images and simulacra of that history, which itself remains forever out of reach. Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" (1981) and Patrick Süskind's "Das Parfum. Die Geschichte eines Mörders" (1984) stand out as two hugely successful novels from this period that raise questions about historical representation within the space of the popular. They might therefore be used as test cases for Jameson's concerns. "Midnight's Children" is a sprawling story of Indian and British imperial and post-imperial history across the twentieth century. "Das Parfum" tells the tightly framed tale of a murderous perfumer in eighteenth-century France. Seemingly very different texts, they bear one curious similarity: both feature a protagonist with an unusually sensitive sense of smell.
T3  - ZfL Blog : Blog des Leibniz-Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin - 20.06.2022 
KW  - Rushdie, Salman
KW  - Midnight's children
KW  - Süskind, Patrick
KW  - Das Parfum
KW  - Jameson, Fredric
KW  - Postmoderne
KW  - Historischer Roman
KW  - Geruch <Motiv>
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/68699
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-686990
UR  - https://www.zflprojekte.de/zfl-blog/2022/06/20/david-anderson-novel-seeming-goods-re-reading-salman-rushdies-midnights-children-and-patrick-sueskinds-das-parfum-40/
SN  - 2748-5072
VL  - 2022
IS  - 20.06.2022
SP  - 1
EP  - 4
PB  - Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin
CY  - Berlin
ER  -