The Idylls of the Petrified World: Theodor Fontane’s Stine or the Siege of Inhumanity
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https://doi.org/10.12795/mAGAzin.2020.i28.01Keywords:
Theodor Fontane, Prussianism, German literature, Realism in Germany, StineAbstract
The present article seeks to reflect on the social, political and ideological mechanisms in the period of the German empire’s foundation (Gründerzeit) through a little-studied novel of Theodor Fontane’s literary production: Stine. Through this novel, the author exposes the inherent contradictions of the incipient German capitalism and its union with a central element of the politics of his time, Prussianism. Born out of the reactionary landed and aristocratic social strata, the Prussian ideology is an important element to understand Germany’s imperialist project and its ultimate consequences, manifested in National Socialism. In this sense, the article proposes a reading, through literature, of the origins of this political tendency in the national life of the German country. Through this analysis, the notion of realism in the specifically German literary field is also problematized.
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