Writing techniques in German-language Historical Magic Realism
The Example of Elisabeth Langgässer’s Modernist Novel “Der Gang durch das Ried”
Abstract
Contemporary critical literature on international Magical Realism overwhelmingly associates this aesthetics with the postmodern and postcolonial currents of thought. This article wants to recontextualize the historical roots of Magical Realism as a poetics in German and European Modernism of the interwar period. To do so, it examines the paradigmatic case study of Elisabeth Langgässer's novel Der Gang durch das Ried [Walking through the Ried] (1936), published under National Socialism, and analyses the particular writing processes that also make of magical-realist allegorisation a politically subversive mode of writing.
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