Martin Walser, Jenseits der Liebe [Beyond all Love]

Alexander Mathäs (University of Oregon)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1976

Places

Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Martin Walser’s short novel

Jenseits der Liebe

[

Beyond All Love

, 1976] deserves recognition as an important text in the author’s literary development, because it links thematic elements from his early period with a more succinct style, typical of his successful creative phase beginning with the novella

Ein fliehendes Pferd

[

RunawayHorse

, 1978]. Walser’s text can be regarded as an effective attempt at presenting the effects of West German corporate reality on the individual psyche in a new, concise idiom reminiscent of the Kafkaesque style of his early short stories. At the time of the text’s appearance in 1976 critics failed to appreciate the significance of the side-by-side realistic description of a West German employee’s everyday life and its anti-realist, dreamlike…

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Citation: Mathäs, Alexander. "Jenseits der Liebe". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 August 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=22263, accessed 26 April 2024.]

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