German Literature of the Twentieth Century: From Aestheticism to Postmodernism

Traces literary developments in the German-speaking countries from 1900 to the present.

This study of German literature in the past hundred years sets its subject clearly in the artistic and political context of developments in Western Europe during the century. It begins with the turn-of-the-century aestheticism andvisions of decay led by Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal and other Austrian writers, and the quite different explosion of new artistic energy in the Expressionist and Dada movements. The...