In Transit: Placelessness and the Absurd in the Writings of Anna Seghers.

The structure of feeling that has been called the absurd suggests a placeless and irrational world. Yet such a structure of feeling is sometimes produced in response to quite a specific context. This essay considers the way absurdity arises and is treated within Anna Seghers's Transit, a novel about...

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Publicado en:GeoHumanities Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 1 - 25
Autor principal: Kearns, Gerry
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2020
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