Performing the Jew: The Austrian novelist Robert Menasse
Performing the Jew: The Austrian novelist Robert Menasse
This article argues that the protagonist Viktor Abravanel in Robert Menasse’s 2001 novel Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle 'performs' his Jewishness by causing a calculated scandal during a class reunion. Because Viktor is designed as Menasse's alter ego the protagonist's actions are relevant to Menasse's own self perception. Menasse's playful mixing of fact and fiction in both his previous fictional and non-fictional work as well as claims he made in an interview with the author are cited to underpin this reading of the novel.
9781571135636
Reiter, Andrea
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Reiter, Andrea
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Reiter, Andrea
(2013)
Performing the Jew: The Austrian novelist Robert Menasse.
In,
Donahue, William C. and Helfer, Martha B.
(eds.)
Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies. Volume 2.
Rochester, US.
Camden House.
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This article argues that the protagonist Viktor Abravanel in Robert Menasse’s 2001 novel Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle 'performs' his Jewishness by causing a calculated scandal during a class reunion. Because Viktor is designed as Menasse's alter ego the protagonist's actions are relevant to Menasse's own self perception. Menasse's playful mixing of fact and fiction in both his previous fictional and non-fictional work as well as claims he made in an interview with the author are cited to underpin this reading of the novel.
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Accepted/In Press date: November 2013
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/352203
ISBN: 9781571135636
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Andrea Reiter
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William C. Donahue
Editor:
Martha B. Helfer
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