Zero Hour in Arno Schmidfs Triptych Leviathan;or, An Adventure Allegorist at the Crossroads  

作　　者：Claudia Franken 

机构地区：[1]不详

出　　处：《Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures》2021年第1期1-14,155,共15页外国语言与文化（英文）

摘　　要：Amo Schmidt's tripartite Leviathan(1949;written 1946-1948)is one of the few German narratives composed immediately after World War II.Different from the then newly-propagated Triimmerliteratur(literature among the ruins)or the literature of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung(coping with the past),Schmidt's writing condensed and“dehydrated”narrative events,weaving antiquity and his personal experience into one in order to lay bare historical lines of continuity.Relating to Pytheas of Marsilia,to an ethics based on praxis and to modem physics,he undertakes a demanding topography of“hell descents”within which he also put into doubt political and academic demands upon a cultural legacy that was,to him,anything but timeless.The essay explores Schmidt's didactic,innovative use of allegory and other rhetorical devices as tools for understanding long-term consequences of failures of interpretation and forceful restrictions on the play of imagination.

关 键 词：Amo Schmidt AVANT-GARDE Dante Eratosthenes LEVIATHAN Pytheas 20th-century German literature 

分 类 号：I516[文学—其他各国文学]