Švarcmaleri austrijske pozornice I-II
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- Author: Canetti Elias
- Publisher: Futura publikacije
- ISBN: 9788671881586
- Availability: Available
- Condition: New book
- Code: 84661
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Švarcmaleri austrijske pozornice I-II
Canetti Elias
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Elias Canetti: Black Painters of the Austrian Stage I-II
Schwarzmüller's anthology of Austrian dramatic literature collected four works by four different authors: Elias Canetti, Jure Soifer, Thomas Bernhard and Werner Schwab. Although they span a long period of the twentieth century – almost 60 years, from 1933, when Elias Canetti wrote *The Wedding*, to 1991, when Werner Schwab's play *Extermination of Nations* was published – there is a common thread that justifies their unification. The point of their meeting is precisely that dark inventory of the present and a no less dark look into the future (if it exists at all), which characterizes and limits the very title *Black Painters*. It could be said that this choice reflects in a certain way the tradition that W. G. Sebald describes as the deepest feature of Austria and its culture: "that it has made self-criticism its fundamental principle". The first two plays, by Canetti and Soifer, were created before the events that created a dark void – a caesura in the history of the 20th century that remains rationally inexplicable and emotionally insurmountable – while the other two, by Bernhard and Schwab, written long after the Second World War, hopelessly diagnose an almost unchanged social and political environment. The creation of Canetti's and Soifer's plays is related to the period of flourishing of "Jewish" Austrian culture between the two world wars, the outlines of which can be seen in the sentences at the beginning of this text. Although both authors occupy positions of social criticism, they are socially differently positioned: Canetti within the intellectual and literary establishment, and Soifer on its extreme left, in the subculture of Viennese coffeehouses - literally in their basements where a new genre is developed and nurtured: the genre of Viennese political cabaret.
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- Author: Canetti Elias
- Publisher: Futura publikacije
- Year of publication:2015
- Place of publication:Novi Sad
- Pages:344+361
- Dimensions:12.5x20.5 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:New book
- Binding:Softcover
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