Postimperiale Diskurse im Spätwerk von Joseph Roth. "Die Kapuzinergruft" und Schwarz-gelbes Tagebuch
Postimperial Discourse in Late Works of Joseph Roth. "Die Kapuzinergruft" and "Schwarz-gelbes Tagebuch"

Summary/Abstract: One of the central topics in the work of Joseph Roth is the experience of loss that accompanied the collapse of the Habsburg multi-ethnic empire. Both his early post-war retournee novels and journalistic texts, as well as his later nostalgic narratives and publicist writings, are characterized by a constellation of post-imperial interdependencies linked to the disintegration of Eurasian empires and the emergence of new nation-states. This paper illustrates the issue by means of analyzing two representative texts, whereby special attention is paid to the role of post-imperial discourse and its specific articulation in fictional and journalist formats.

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