They Have All Been Healed : Reading Robert Walser
by
Jan Plug
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
081013263X
ISBN-13
9780810132634
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Imprint
Northwestern University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 30th, 2016
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
320 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 22.90 x 2.00 cms
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In perhaps the most provocative reading to date of the Swiss German modernist Robert Walser, Walter Benjamin asserted that Walser's figures “have all been healed.” They Have All Been Healed takes up and extends Benjamin's assessment by following the figure of healing throughout major works by Walser.
In perhaps the most provocative reading to date of the Swiss German modernist Robert Walser, Walter Benjamin asserted that Walser''s figures ""have all been healed."" They Have All Been Healed takes up and extends Benjamin''s assessment by following the figure of healing throughout major works by Walser, from his minidrama Snow White and his acknowledged masterpieces The Walk and Jakob von Gunten to his enigmatic last novel, The Robber. At the same time, Jan Plug reads Walser alongside his most compelling readers, tracing how not only Benjamin but also Giorgio Agamben, W. G. Sebald, and the Brothers Quay complicate, clarify, and enact that same process of healing in their own work. Working out the theological implications of Walser''s work and of the tradition to which he gives rise, Plug at once recasts one of the major authors of the twentieth century and articulates a new conception of healing and salvation.
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