Die Schriftsteller als Intellektuelle und die EU: das Beispiel Robert Menasse

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-116
Author(s):  
Antje Büssgen
Keyword(s):  
Robert Menasse

Versteckte Juden im Affenkäfig

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-214
Author(s):  
Ewout van der Knaap
Keyword(s):  
Animal Studies ◽  
Jewish Family ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Robert Menasse

In his story The End of the Winter of Starvation, Robert Menasse portrays a Jewish family that in 1944 survived the war in a monkey cage in the Amsterdam Zoo. The article uncovers the representation of historical matters, scrutinizes the narrative strategy that both strives to question the truth of memory and aims to reveal how ritualized memory-talk is. By interpreting the performance of memory in Menasse’s story, and by highlighting insights from animal studies, the intertextual negative of Franz Kafka’s story A Report to an Academy is revealed.

Weil Europa sich ändern muss: Im Gespräch mit Robert Menasse

2015 ◽  
pp. 43-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gesine Schwan ◽  
Robert Menasse ◽  
Hauke Brunkhorst
Keyword(s):  
Robert Menasse

scholarly journals Robert Menasse, The Capital. A satirical novel on the European Union

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Teresa Martins de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Narrative Space ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Robert Menasse ◽  
The Eu

After a short introduction to Menasse´s ideas about the European Union presented in different theoretical texts, the paper will concentrate on the novel The Capital, published in 2016. It will focus on the idea the reader will react with strangeness to the diminished narrative space taken in the text by topics like migrations, terrorism and islamofobia, which are generally accepted as the main issues affecting the EU today (Griffen 2019). Nonetheless, a more detailed analysis of three moments of the novel that critics tend to consider as subsidiary according to their place in the textual economy will show the importance of the aforementioned topics and their (possible) recognition as the new challenges that mark the EU.

Engagement

2020 ◽  
pp. 132-147
Author(s):  
Benedict Schofield
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
European Union ◽  
First Century ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Popular Appeal ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Robert Menasse

The idea of literary ‘engagement’, first introduced to a wider public by Jean-Paul Sartre in the 1940s, is perhaps the most important twentieth-century contribution to our evolving understanding of authorship. The question of how authors should position themselves vis-à-vis the human conflicts of their day remains as pertinent as ever. In this chapter, Benedict Schofield analyses how two contemporary novelists—Robert Menasse and Ali Smith—have found distinctively twenty-first-century forms of literary engagement, transforming themselves into what Schofield calls ‘cultural statespeople’. The works of Menasse and Smith cement their creators’ demands that they be taken seriously as literary authors, rather than as celebrities or even generic public intellectuals. Yet, both are deeply cognizant of the extra-literary factors that contribute to their popular appeal and use these to agitate for the strengthening and transformation of the European Union.

Overcoming the crisis of disunity: Writers on a constitution for Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 239-251
Author(s):  
Paul Michael Lützeler
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
European Federation ◽  
European Cooperation ◽  
Heinrich Mann ◽  
European Crisis ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Robert Menasse

The topic of this paper is a retrospective of the history of literary discourse on Europe, from the Vienna Congress to the present. The Congress of Vienna was seen as a step back for European cooperation by contemporary authors like Saint-Simon, Schmidt-Phiseldek, Goerres and Mazzini. They understood that a constitution was the precondition for the future unity of a European federation. Later, new voices were heard in which the debate about a common constitution for Europe played a dominating role, and writings on Europe were published by Richard Graf Couldenhove-Kalergi, Heinrich Mann and Jules Romains. After WWII writers like Ernst Jünger and Reinhold Schneider pleaded for a continental constitution. After the common constitution was rejected in 2005, the debate on Europe gave way to other topics. Today, Robert Menasse believes the European crisis can be overcome by using regions (instead of nations) as the building blocks of a united Europe.

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