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An Interview With Adolf Muschg, Judith Ricker-Abderhalden
An Interview With Adolf Muschg, Judith Ricker-Abderhalden
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Adolf Muschg, a popular writer, teacher and aesthetician, is one of the comparatively few contemporary Swiss writers who has been able to establish himself firmly in Germany. In recent years, he has begun to attract the attention of American critics and Germanists as well. In the interview, Adolf Muschg deals with a wide spectrum of issues. He identifies the authors and works that mean most to him. He traces, for instance, his changing relationship to Goethe, whom he recently rediscovered. In Goethe's works, above all in his scientific studies, Muschg finds issues that are of central importance to the survival …
Writing As A Magician's Game:The Strange Early World Of Christoph Meckel, Heidi M. Rockwood
Writing As A Magician's Game:The Strange Early World Of Christoph Meckel, Heidi M. Rockwood
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The contemporary German author Christoph Meckel often introduces into his early short stories the metaphor of "playing a game" for creating a literary work. The paper investigates how Meckel uses this metaphor, what types of games he plays with the reader, and what kind of a world he creates through those games. On the basis of four short stories it suggests the conclusion that Meckel often introduces dangerous overtones and consequences, even though he likes to present himself as a happy and harmless storyteller, and that his stories share many characteristics with dreams and nightmares. Nevertheless, such game-playing is an …