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The Dear Purchase: A Theme in German Modernism

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Dear Purchase: A Theme in German Modernism
Authors and Contributors      By (author) J. P. Stern
Foreword by Nicholas Boyle
SeriesCambridge Studies in German
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:468
Dimensions(mm): Height 222,Width 144
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
ISBN/Barcode 9780521433303
ClassificationsDewey:830.90091
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 2 February 1995
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Completed shortly before Professor Stern's death in 1991, this book studies works by twelve major writers of German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke, in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores the theme of the "dear purchase," an ideal of moral strenuousness and sacrifice seen as characteristic of Germany after Nietzsche, and reveals the underlying flaw in this notion as a self-justifying value. Finally, it juxtaposes Mann's Felix Krull and Kafka's story "Josephine" as a deliverance from the value-system of the title.

Reviews

'... [a] matchless analysis of German Modernism.' The Times