Looks at the nineteenth-century convergence of a new kind of excessive, habitual drinking, and a new way of thinking about the self, which we came to label 'existential'.Drinking to excess has been a ...striking problem for industrial and post-industrial societies - who is responsible when an individual opts for a slow suicide? The causes of such drinking have often been blamed on genes, moral weakness, 'disease' (addiction), hedonism, and Romantic illusion. Yet there is another reason: the drinker may act with sincere philosophical intent, exploring the edges of self, consciousness, will, ethics, authenticity and finitude. Beginning with Jack London'sJohn Barleycorn: alcoholic memoirs the book goes on to cover novels such as Jean Rhys'sGood morning, midnight, Malcolm Lowry's Under the volcano, Charles Jackson'sThe lost weekend and John O'Brien's Leaving Las Vegas, and less familiar works such as Frederick Exley's A fan's notes, Venedikt Yerofeev's Moscow-Petushki, and A. L. Kennedy's Paradise.
The commercially successful Hebrew translation of Alone in Berlin (Fallada, 2010) stirred a conversation regarding the German resistance to Nazism, until then a rarely discussed phenomenon in Israel. ...The analysis of media items dealing with the book revealed that different memory frameworks shaped the discussion about it. Thus, this study contributes to contemporary discussion about the role of "old" and "new" media in the reconstruction of society's memory.
The three novels under examination in this article -- Erich Kastner's Fabian -- The Story of a Moralist (1931), Hans Fallada's Little Man -- What Now? (1932) and Irmgard Keun's The Artificial Silk ...Girl (1932) -- have profound similarities depicting, often with a mixture of comedy, irony and pathos, fictional narratives of women's experiences in the metropolis of Berlin, at the end of a period now known as the Weimar Republic. Written in the spirit of Neue Sachlichkeit -- a new matter-of-factness, sobriety, or objectivity -- these novels provide the reader with impressions of the era as lived through by the authors themselves and subsequently, like all accounts, they should be used in conjunction with other sources. After a brief examination of the style of Neue Sachlichkeit and the concepts of the 'New Woman', the article analyses the multiple and often contradictory depictions of women's characters and roles in Weimar society as expressed throughout the novels. The first section explores the novels' conveyance of a heightened objectification and commoditization of women, contrasting to their frequent depiction in this era, as emancipated and independent of man's influence. The second section considers the novels' representations of women as dangerous 'Others' in Weimar society, with particular reference to Kastner's Fabian. The final section of the article examines women's role in the workplace which, in the case of Fallada's Little Man -- What Now?, represents them as figures of resilience in the face of economic deprivation, in contrast with the redundancy and lethargy of the male characters. Adapted from the source document.
Hans Fallada has suffered from a poor political reputation affecting his position in the literary canon. Instead of straightening out this political and canomical maladjustment, the essay argues for ...Fallada's significance as a bad example for those looking for moral and political lessons in mid-century German letters. Der Alpdruck, his 1947 novel about a Soviet-installed mayor, depicts his wrong-headedness, first, as the autobiographical protagonist fails to adopt a satisfactory affect toward postwar guilt and innocence, and second, as he eyes two would-be benefactors, fictional counterparts to Gottfried Benn and Johannes R. Becher, with a wily realism that serves as a foil to their cultural or political responsibility. Reprinted by permission of the German Studies Review
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Melville House has invested a "serious" sum, for a small press, to resurrect the works of Hans Fallada (born Rudolf Ditzen, 1894-1947), once regarded as one of the 20th-century's leading voices. ...Publisher Dennis Johnson regards Fallada as one of Germany's great writers.
Not just remembrance Stuttaford, Andrew
The New Criterion,
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Magazine Article, Book Review
Four books are highlighted: Nightmare in Berlin, by Hans Fallada; Scribe Publications, 288 pages, $15.95; Theory of Shadows: A Novel, by Paolo Maurensig; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 192 pages, $23; A ...Legacy of Spies, by John le Carré; Viking, 272 pages, $28; The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea, by Bandi; Grove Atlantic, 288 pages, $25.
