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They Have All Been Healed: Reading Robert Walser
By (author) Jan Plug
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In perhaps the most provocative reading to date of the Swiss German modernist Robert Walser, Walter Benjamin asserted that Walser's figures """"have all been healed."""" They Have All Been Healed takes up and extends Benjamin's assessment by following the figure of healing throughout major works by Walser, from his minidrama Snow White and his acknowledged masterpieces The Walk and Jakob von Gunten to his enigmatic last novel, The Robber. At the same time, Jan Plug reads Walser alongside his most compelling readers, tracing how not only Benjamin but also Giorgio Agamben, W. G. Sebald, and the Brothers Quay complicate, clarify, and enact that same process of healing in their own work. Working out the theological implications of Walser's work and of the tradition to which he gives rise, Plug at once recasts one of the major authors of the twentieth century and articulates a new conception of healing and salvation.
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Publisher | Northwestern University Press
Published date | 30 Jul 2016
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 256
Dimensions | 231 x 154 x 20mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 448g
ISBN | 978-0-8101-3264-1
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