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This book throws new light on aspects of the works of Broch, Mann, and Kafka. The German Romantic critic Friedrich Schlegel saw music as a paradigm of art, and wished to bring the qualities of music to literature. Schopenhauer saw in music a direct manifestation of the Will, and thus as the highest form ofart. This study examines the ironic influence of these and similar ideas of music's primacy among the arts on three of the most important modern writers of Hermann Broch, Thomas Mann, and Franz Kafka. Of the three, Broch takes Schlegel's idea His novel The Death of Vergil uses the constructive techniques and sonorities of music to extend the cognitive reach of his writing to the non- or supraverbal, and Hargraves traces similar concerns across Broch's career. Unlike Broch, Mann saw in musicality a peculiarly German access to the dark forces within the human psyche. Music is the `glass' through which the reader sees the development of the anti-hero Hans Castorp in Mann's Magic Mountain. In Doktor Faustus, on the other hand, the hero Leverkuhn conjures with demonic powers to create fictional music; his `strict style' is itself an allegory of the political realities of the 20th centu

Author

John A. Hargraves

Publisher

Rochester, NY: Camden House

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781571132086

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Music, History

Updated

2026-03-24