Peter Weiss | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 41 pages of analysis & critique of Peter Weiss.

Peter Weiss | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 41 pages of analysis & critique of Peter Weiss.
This section contains 11,164 words
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SOURCE: Garloff, Katia. “Peter Weiss's Entry into the German Public Sphere: On Diaspora, Language, and the Uses of Distance.” Colloquia Germanica 30, no. 1 (1997): 43-67.

In the following essay, Garloff discusses the issues of exile and diaspora in Weiss's work.

Bin inzwischen zu einem ‘deutschsprachigen Autor’ geworden. Sitze in Stockholm, mit dem Blick auf Söderns Anhöhen, auf den Turm des Maria-Fahrstuhls, am Zeichentisch, an dem ich vor ein paar Jahren noch meine Filme entworfen, meine Collagen hergestellt hatte, und schreibe in der Sprache, die ich als Kind lernte und als 17jähriger verlor—1

Written in 1961, these sentences capture a crucial moment in Peter Weiss's literary career, the moment when he became a German-language author. Weiss had, in fact, written in German before, but it was only after the publication of Der Schatten des Körpers des Kutschers in 19602 that he gained that public recognition as a “‘deutschsprachigen Autor...

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