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The Dear Purchase: A Theme in German Modernism
Hardback
Main Details
| Title |
The Dear Purchase: A Theme in German Modernism
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) J. P. Stern
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Foreword by Nicholas Boyle
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| Series | Cambridge Studies in German |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:468 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 222,Width 144 |
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| Category/Genre | Literary studies - from c 1900 - |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521433303
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| Classifications | Dewey:830.90091 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
2 February 1995 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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
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