“Schneepart” and Schlachtbeschreibung
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In 1968 Alexander Kluge published an abridged and edited version of his 1964 experimental historiographical ‘novel’ on the Battle of Stalingrad, Schlachtbeschreibung. Right after its publication, Paul Celan purchased the book and offered a response sui generis to it in the poem “Schneepart.” The encounter between these two very different approaches to confronting the destructive political violence of the past gives occasion for a new assessment on the legacy of the debate on montage that took place in the 1930s. The article shows how montage is at work both in Kluge and Celan, and how it can be made viable for hermeneutic practices as well.
Source: Journal of Avant-Garde Studies
Author: Chiara Caradonna
Institution: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4411973282