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- Title
Imago Mundi: The Ex-centric Worlds of Franz Gsellmann and Gerhard Roth.
- Authors
Eckhard, Petra
- Abstract
Franz Gsellmann's installation 'Weltmaschine' (World Machine, 1958-1981) and Gerhard Roth's novel Landläufiger Tod (1984) exemplify the construction of ex-centric world models. A comparative reading of Gsellmann and Roth's perspective of the margin(alized) sheds light onto the complex mechanisms of coming to terms with the paralizing socio-political climate apparent in rural post-WW II Austria. Even though narrative and machine, at first sight, appear to be the products of mad minds, they reveal to be the physical shape of an imaginative escapism which radically counteracts the destructive silence about Austria's problematic past.
- Subjects
AUSTRIA; ECCENTRIC literature; ECCENTRICS &; eccentricities in art; AUSTRIAN politics &; government, 1945-; GSELLMANN, Franz; ROTH, Gerhard; LANDLAUFIGER Tod (Book); SOCIAL marginality in literature; TWENTIETH century; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Arcadia -- International Journal for Literary Studies, 2014, Vol 49, Issue 2, p334
- ISSN
0003-7982
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/arcadia-2014-0027