Author: Zumsteg, Simon

Source: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, Trunkenheit Kulturen des Rausches. Herausgegeben von Thomas Strässle und Simon Zumsteg , pp. 241-266(26)

Publisher: Rodopi

Abstract:

This essay discusses the interferences between writing and smoking in Hermann Burger's Brenner novels (1989/1992) by investigating the poetological function of the so-called 'trockene Trunkenheit' (dry drunkenness), a state evoked by the consumption of tobacco. Even though in these novels this state is exposed as a precondition for the narrator's inspiration, his literary productivity is owed to a sober-minded absorption and transformation of pre-texts rather than a nicotine-induced inebriation.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2007-12-01

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