Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Englischer Garten, Luigi Pirandello, Gustav Mahler
28 Mar 2016
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Modernist period in both literature, art and architecture a the end of the 19th century there is a sense that the world has changed; that the european tradiion no longer works. Malaise sense that relaions to world have changed: loss of faith in tradiional insituions, opimism, religion. Arist as alien alienated from modern, technological world. How to ind a new form to express the modern world: modernist writers and arists experiment in form. Thomas mann is not experimental in form yet. Proust, james joyce, virginia woolf, luigi pirandello, etc: the development of interior monologue . One of the great igures in german literature. 1893: moves to munich, works in fire insurance company. 1911: plans vacation: learns of mahler"s death: 26 may 2 june stays at hotel des bains on the lido (venice) He became infatuated with a young polish women (same as aschenbach: writes on richard wagner"s art while there. 1912: der tod in venedig (death in venice)
