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10.4000/germanica.254

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10.4000/germanica.254

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Impossible rooted, impossible utopia: the aporie from elsewhere in Franz Innerhofer’s Yugoslav trilogy

Abstract

The autobiographical trilogy published by Franz Innerhofer between 1974 and 1977 is considered as one of the models of the Austrian Antiheimatliteratur (anti-regionalist literature). The first wing Schöne Tage (Beautiful Days) reverses the theme of the attachment to the homeland, this one imposing itself to the individual in a mute brutality that makes impossible any deep-rootedness in the here. The fundamental movement of the trilogy lies then in the search of an elsewhere that would be less hostile, which does not come down to changes of places and times but constitutes a mode of apprehension of the real marked by a double dynamic of reject and new exploration. So, it is less the social ascension of the main character, Holl that is placed in the foreground of the two following novels: Schattseite and Die großen Wörter than his birth to the critical spirit. As the successive horizons he is turning to cannot resist it, Holl’s hope is taken back to a space that is still more in the distance and abstract. From then on, the question of the elsewhere is progressively to be asked in political terms: exhaustion of the geographical, social and cultural possible leads to the search of “another part”, that is more radical, the one of utopia. The tragic that is proper to Franz Innerhofer’s trilogy lies in the fact that this ultimate action cannot eventually be taken into account by any coherent discourse, an aporia expressed by the of the text itself on which a work comes to an end and that offers in the same movement the sketch of a particularly demanding literary aesthetics.

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