Vernetzte Welten in Daniel Kehlmanns "Ruhm" – Schicksal oder Chance?

  • The nine stories of Kehlmann’s novel Ruhm. Ein Roman in neun Geschichten (2009) are contentwise independent, yet they are manifoldly linked up by several apparently coincidental elements. Modern means of communication as mobile phones or access to internet, initially invented to bring people together, have now the function to engulf people in misery and isolate them from each other. An analysis on Kehlmann’s social criticism of modern way of life and communication in his literary work is not so easy because of a special character of the novel: it is the fictional writer who ironically questions literature itself and its ethical function.

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Author:Sunhild GalterGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-654097
URL:http://uniblaga.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/29.1.4.pdf
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:2011
Year of first Publication:2011
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2022/01/21
Tag:Daniel Kehlmann; fictional writer; linked up; nine stories; social criticism on modern way of life and communication
Volume:29
Page Number:12
First Page:86
Last Page:97
HeBIS-PPN:491110944
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 83 Deutsche und verwandte Literaturen / 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur
Sammlungen:Germanistik / GiNDok
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte:Germanistische Beiträge / Germanistische Beiträge 29.2011
:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-654043
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht