Nietzsche and Modernism: Nihilism and Suffering in Lawrence, Kafka and Beckett

by Stewart Smith

Book Overview

Reconfiguring Nietzsche's seminal impact on modernist literature and culture, this book presents a distinctive new reading of modernism by exploring his sustained philosophical engagement with nihilism and its inextricable tie to pain and sickness. Arguing that modernist texts dramatize the frailty of the ill, the impotent, and the traumatised modern subject unable to render suffering significant through traditional religious means, it uses the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331975534X
• ISBN13: 9783319755342
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"