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The European Union and Other Crazy Utopias: Robert Menasse's Postnationalist Vision in Die Hauptstadt by Anita McChesney is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is The European Union and Other Crazy Utopias: Robert Menasse's Postnationalist Vision in Die Hauptstadt about?
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome in March 2017, Robert Menasse delivered a scathing speech to the EU Parliament criticizing current leaders for neglecting the body's original goals. Th is generation of politicians, he claimed, has dismissed the European project as a crazy utopia because they are ignorant of the past and blind to the future. Entitled "Kritik der Europäischen Vernunft ," Menasse's speech evokes Kant's Enlightenment philosophy in its call to return to human reason and the original EU ideal to overcome the nation-states and nationalisms at the root of so much destruction. Menasse's appeal to reclaim the postnational European ideal reappears in fi ctional form in Die Hauptstadt. Th e 2017 novel similarly portrays a dysfunctional European Union whose members need to recall their shared cultural values. Comprised of multiple narrative strands and narrators, the novel's fragmented structure works together with the plot to reinforce the larger commentary on an EU in danger of disintegration due to the myopia of individual national interests. Menasse amplifi es the political message with literary devices such as allusion, parody, and satire that adopt and fa
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- Author
- Anita McChesney
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2021
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)