Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Poetics Today
Angaben zur Quelle:
16,2 (1995) 253-281
Schlagwort(e):
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand,
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Antisemitism in literature
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French literature History and criticism
Kurzfassung:
Criticizes attempts to distinguish between the poetic, stylistic level and the political, ideological content of artistic writings, especially in the case of Céline. States that Céline's revolutionary style cannot be dissociated from his antisemitic message: Céline himself spoke of the "stylized vulgarization" of the "science of Judeology". Argues that Celine was working the language to produce more powerful effects in the transmission of his antisemitic thought. Shows how critics such as André Gide and Henri Godard, unlike Julia Kristeva, dismissed the weight of Celine's racial vituperations as jokes, games, or "exercises in style". Warns that the effect of his writings may be more damaging because of the greatness of his art. Céline saw in the Jews the metaphysical, aesthetic evil threatening the soul of the Aryan French through "Judaization" of the primordial emotion.
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