Dora Osborne
Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes: The Burden of History
Osborne, Dora
Authors
Contributors
Paul Michael Lützeler
Editor
Erin McGlothlin
Editor
Jennifer Kapczynski
Editor
Abstract
While Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes develops Christoph Ransmayr’s long-term interest in the relationship between travel and narrative, it suggests links to a non-cartographic project, namely Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas. Using Georges Didi-Huberman’s recent reading of Warburg’s “Bilderatlas” and the mythological figure of Atlas, this article shows how Ransmayr’s narrator is confronted on his travels with the “Pathosformeln” of human suffering. As witness, he feels conflicted about what to do with this burden: at times he wants to set it down, to see it dissipate in a vision of weightlessness; but in the episodes relating to his native Austria and the recent past, he sees the proximity of this legacy and tries to shoulder the burden of history through acts of narrative.
Citation
Osborne, D. (2016). Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes: The Burden of History. In P. M. Lützeler, E. McGlothlin, & J. Kapczynski (Eds.), Schwerpunkt : Christoph Ransmayr. = Focus : Christoph Ransmayr (125-146). Stauffenburg
Online Publication Date | Sep 1, 2016 |
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Publication Date | Nov 26, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Nov 21, 2016 |
Pages | 125-146 |
Series Title | Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein Germanistisches Jahrbuch. = A German studies yearbook. |
Book Title | Schwerpunkt : Christoph Ransmayr. = Focus : Christoph Ransmayr. |
Publisher URL | http://www.stauffenburg.de/asp/books.asp?id=1370 |
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