Spaces for happiness in the twentieth-century german novel
Subtitle: Mann, Kafka, Hesse, Jüünger
By: Alan Corkhill
Series: German life and civilization -- v. 57
Publisher: New York
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783034307970
Subjects: German fiction; Happiness in literature; History and criticism; Philosophy in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thomas Mann: competing models of happiness in Der Zauberberg; title: Franz Kafka: sites of happiness and unhappiness; title: Der process (1925): existential unhappiness; title: Das schloss (1926): negotiating room for happiness; title: Hermann Hesse: the quest for the happiness of self-knowledge; title: Siddhartha (1922): towards the joy of flow; title: Der Steppenwolf (1927): the pathology of happy unhappiness; title: Das Glasperlenspiel (1943): educating for happiness; title: Ernst Jünger: the technologization of happiness in Heliopolis.