Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Version of Record
Publication Date
2012
Abstract
Anna Seghers’s novel Transit was widely praised by critics, especially in the former German Democratic Republic. Heinrich Böll even regards it as the most beautiful novel Anna Seghers ever wrote. A close analysis of the text, however, reveals many lose ends, one-dimensional characters, stereotypical descriptions of people, and subjects who act irrationally and strange. It is a platform for preaching her political views intermixed with Greek Mythology and Christian imagery. In addition, she borrows heavily from Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, but fails to reach the sophistication Mann’s novel exhibits.
Publication Title
Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics
Volume
4
Issue
1
Pages
10
Format
application/pdf
Language
en
Publisher
Scientific Journal International
Rights
Copyright © 2012 Eckhard Rolz. All rights reserved.
Recommended Citation
Rolz, Eckhard, "His Name is Not Tadzio, or Death in Marseilles: Anna Seghers’s Transit" (2012). School of American and Global Studies Faculty Publications with a Focus on Modern Languages and Global Studies. 9.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/mlgs_pubs/9
Comments
This work was published in Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics, 3.2. Volume 4, Issue 1, (2012) 1-10.