The Holocaust between Pop Literature and High Literature:Maxim Biller’s Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz
The Holocaust between Pop Literature and High Literature:Maxim Biller’s Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz
Author(s): Reinhard IblerSubject(s): Cultural history, Social history, History of Judaism, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Holocaust literature; Jewish literature; Maxim Biller; Bruno Schulz; Thomas Mann;
Summary/Abstract: Maxim Biller, one of the most prominent, but also most controversial Ger-man-Jewish authors, is an important figure in modern Holocaust literature. Af-ter a short introduction to his early journalistic and literary oeuvre dealing with the Holocaust, we will focus on his novella Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz from 2013. A short outline of the story will be followed by a detailed analysis of the role the Holocaust plays in this story, especially with regard to the two protag-onists, Bruno Schulz and Thomas Mann. It will be shown that the pop-literary provocations that dominate Billers’ early works, are now displaced by clear ten-dencies towards a high literary, artistic standard, which are characteristic for the developments of modern Holocaust literature in general.
Journal: Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 24
- Page Range: 65-83
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English