Open AccessDoderers Dilettantismus
Author(s) -
Jan Tödtloff Schlosser
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
nordlit
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1503-2086
pISSN - 0809-1668
DOI - 10.7557/13.1579
Subject(s) - poetics , art , philosophy , literature , art history , poetry
The article focuses on the function of dilettantism in the works of Austrian author Heimito von Doderer. In his poetics the "dilettant" is the negative opposite to the "artist". In the ironical novel Die erleuchteten Fenster (1951) the protagonist is an example of the classic dilettant, who plays with the world