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White Collar Workers, Mass Culture and 'Neue Sachlichkeit' in Weimar Berlin: A Reading of Hans Fallada's Kleiner Mann - Was Nun? , Erich Kastner's Fabian and Irmgard Keun's Das Kunstseidene Madchen by Deborah Smail (Paperback, 1998)

This book concentrates on three novels set in the rapidly changing white-collar milieu of Berlin during the Weimar Republic. All three novels are concerned with the disarray, anguish and tension of commercial Angestellten - figures who are involved in selling, advertising, and other growing consumer-orientated industries. Focusing on the socially critical import of the narrative and characterization, it is argued that much of the everyday experiences of the protagonists is shaped by commercial influences which penetrate their jobs, their places of entertainment and their private and public relationships in very subtle, but nonetheless powerful and often damaging ways. The study not only emphasizes connections and parallels between the novels which have frequently been overlooked. By examining contemporary developments in the Berlin entertainment world, the commercialist ethos and the architecture of Neue Sachlichkeit, it also sets them in several interrelated contexts yielding new perspectives on the relationship between the novels and the society and culture of Weimar Berlin.

Book Title
White Collar Workers, Mass Culture and 'Neue Sachlichkeit' in Weimar Berlin: A Reading of Hans Fallada's Kleiner Mann - Was Nun? , Erich Kastner's Fabian and Irmgard Keun's Das Kunstseidene Madchen
Author
Deborah Smail
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
1998
Number of Pages
236 Pages

Title_Author
Deborah Smail
Issn
0171-6662
Series Title
Britische und Irische Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur/British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture
Switzerland

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