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Performing the Jew: The Austrian novelist Robert Menasse

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
Camden House
Reiter, Andrea
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Donahue, William C.
Helfer, Martha B.
Reiter, Andrea
2d3fad43-ac1d-4ec7-bd9f-0b9168492a84
Donahue, William C.
Helfer, Martha B.

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. (In Press)

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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
Organisations: Modern Languages

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Local EPrints ID: 352203
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/352203
ISBN: 9781571135636
PURE UUID: 4462ab23-f2d4-464f-a80b-d33cf5c49f05

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Date deposited: 07 May 2013 14:46
Last modified: 13 Dec 2023 17:35

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Author: Andrea Reiter
Editor: William C. Donahue
Editor: Martha B. Helfer

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