Krisen und Nebenkrisen in österreichischen Corona-Romanen
Crises and secondary crises in Austrian Corona novels
Author(s): Marijana JelečSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Austrian Literature, Health and medicine and law, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Crisis; Covid-19; pandemic; Contemporary literature; limitations; Marlene Streeruwitz; Maria Jelenko; Peter Zimmermann
Summary/Abstract: In response to the current pandemic, novels with a pandemic crisis topic are being created in contemporary Austrian literature. The article analyzes how the current pandemic is presented in literary terms and how the resulting crises are dealt with in Marlene Streeruwitz’s novel So ist die Welt geworden, Maria Jelenko’s Quarantäne and Peter Zimmermann’s Corona 2021. Beginn einer neuen Welt in terms of literary aesthetics. Answers are sought to the questions of how restrictions in public life are perceived and to what extent literary depictions of crises can offer potential.
Journal: Wortfolge. Szyk Słów
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 6
- Page Range: 1-15
- Page Count: 15
- Language: German