Paranoia with a Pedigree
Alexander Lernet-Holenia's Graf Luna (1955) as Austrian Nazi-Trauma Narrative
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22345576 |
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| Authors | Clemens Ruthner (0009-0001-0382-4430, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 77-96 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Austrian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2165-669X • E-ISSN: 2327-1809 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/oas.2019.0068 |
| OpenAlex | W3048088131 |
| Language | EN |
In his early oeuvre, Alexander Lernet-Holenia's (1897–1976) excessive literary grief work in response to the demise of the Habsburg monarchy frequently turned to the fantastic as a literary mode of expressing the "political unconscious" (Jameson), the ensuing novels Mars im Widder (1940/47), Der Graf von St. Germain (1948), and Der Graf Luna (1955) in a way constitute a no less fantastic Austrian Nazi trilogy. They reveal how, under the onslaught of National Socialism and Soviet Communism, the author's literary mythology began to crumble and became a trauma narrative of sorts
Art · Communism · Demise · Literature · Mythology · Narrative · Nazism · Paranoia · Politics · German History and Society · German legal, social, and political studies · History · Law · Literature and Cultural Memory · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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