Free Content Gift/Gas oder das Phantasma der reinigenden Gewalt Johannes R. Becher: (CH Cl = CH)3 As (Levisite) oder Der einzig gerechte Krieg (1926)

Author: Vollmer, Jörg

Source: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, Von Richthofen bis Remarque: Deutschsprachige Prosa zum I. Weltkrieg. Herausgegeben von Thomas F. Schneider und Hans Wagner , pp. 181-193(13)

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In Johannes R. Becher's novel (CH Cl = CH)3 As (Levisite) oder Der einzig gerechte Krieg (1926) a line is drawn from the experience of chemical warfare since 1915 to a possible civil war in the future (seen from 1925), in which the capitalist system destroys itself. "Gas" is here the metaphor for capitalism, and its use in a future war marks the turning point in an apocalyptic process, out of which Communism is born.

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