Robert Musil and the new aesthetic for (post)modernity

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51359/2357-9986.2022.256176

Keywords:

aesthetics, cinema, Musil, politics, theater

Abstract

We will address in this essay Musil's reflection on contemporary aestheticsand theatre. We place the musilian essays and the theatre reviews he wroteduring the first decades (1910-30) in the context of his essayism which ou-tlines the goals of his experimental fiction. The plays (like The Enthusiasts),which Musil wrote during and after the war represent a critical response tothe conventional theater of the time. The demystification of the commercialand conservative nature of theater in Musil's reviews of the 1920s has stronglinks to cultural criticism and reflection on the social and political conditions of the Republic that emerged after the fall of the Empire.

Author Biography

Kathrin Holzermayr Lerrer Rosenfield, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Professora titular da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, com atuação no PPG-Filosofia e no PPG-Letras.

References

ROSENFIELD, Kathrin. “Robert Musil – un novelista comprometido... a través del prisma de dos elogios fúnebres”. In. Revista Avatares Filosóficos, Buenos Aires, no. 5, 2018-2020, pp. 31-46. Disponível em: http://revistas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/avatares/article/view/3411/2307. Acesso em: 06.07.2021

Published

2022-10-27

Issue

Section

Dossiê temático sobre Filosofia e Arte Contemporânea