Martin Walser’s short novel
Jenseits der Liebe[
Beyond All Love, 1976] deserves recognition as an important text in the author’s literary development, because it links thematic elements from his early period with a more succinct style, typical of his successful creative phase beginning with the novella
Ein fliehendes Pferd[
RunawayHorse, 1978]. Walser’s text can be regarded as an effective attempt at presenting the effects of West German corporate reality on the individual psyche in a new, concise idiom reminiscent of the Kafkaesque style of his early short stories. At the time of the text’s appearance in 1976 critics failed to appreciate the significance of the side-by-side realistic description of a West German employee’s everyday life and its anti-realist, dreamlike…
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Citation: Mathäs, Alexander. "Jenseits der Liebe". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 August 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=22263, accessed 23 November 2024.]
