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After the Flâneur : Temporality and Connectivity in Wilhelm Genazino’s Belebung der toten Winkel and Das Glück in glücksfernen Zeiten

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Fuchs, Anne (2014) After the Flâneur : Temporality and Connectivity in Wilhelm Genazino’s Belebung der toten Winkel and Das Glück in glücksfernen Zeiten. Modern Language Review, 109 (2). pp. 431-446. doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.109.2.0431 ISSN 0026-7937.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.109.2.0431

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Abstract

Drawing on current debates on the effects of a new ‘culture of immediacy’ in the digital era, this articles analyses Wilhelm Genazino’s poetics of temporality. While the modern flâneur was still a sovereign subject capable of transforming fleeting impressions into moments of quasi-metaphysical vision, his contemporary successor is a stray self roaming an illegible urban jungle in search of intimacy.
Genazino’s figures discover their non-contemporaneity with the contemporary as a creative resource that allows them to exercise temporal sovereignty in an era that is otherwise ruled by the hectic just-in-time ideology. Retreat into melancholy, the performance of private rituals, the fabrication of stories, the technique of the prolonged gaze and slowness emerge as five tactics of resistance through which Genazino’s protagonists achieve temporary anchorage in a run-away world. For Genazino literature necessarily rehabilitates the self’s Eigenzeit, thereby restoring interiority and intimacy as essential conditions of cultural connectivity.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PB Modern European Languages
P Language and Literature > PT Germanic literature
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > German Studies
Journal or Publication Title: Modern Language Review
Publisher: Maney Publishing
ISSN: 0026-7937
Official Date: April 2014
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April 2014Published
Volume: 109
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 431-446
DOI: 10.5699/modelangrevi.109.2.0431
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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