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Publications of the Heimito von Doderer Society, Special Volume 2 |
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vol. 1 vol. 2 vol. 3 spec.vol. 1 Dietrich Weber Doderer MiniaturesDietrich Weber initiated research on Doderer with his dissertation from 1963, Heimito von Doderer - Studien zu seinem Romanwerk (Heimito von Doderer - Studies in His Novels). He was the first to describe Doderer's "art of reality" as a counterbalance to the "crisis of the novel," analyzed Doderer's theory of the novel and the path leading from the monographic earlier work to the political panorama of The Demons. Doderer himself appointed Dietrich Weber one of his literary executors. In 1967 Weber published the fragmentary novel Der Grenzwald (The Border Forest), and in 1969 there followed the volume Repertorium. Weber has always considered himself less the analyst than a friend and proliferator of an author who for him has so distinct an aura. "A unique specimen, an arch-individualist, . . . overwhelming through charm, merrily creating merriment" - that is what Weber writes about Doderer, whose picture he played a large measure in shaping. Now, just in time for Weber's seventieth birthday, a collection of his shorter writings is being published. These consist of talks and essays in the order of their composition. In an episodic and seemingly ephemeral fashion, they revolve around the personality and the impact of the author, describe Doderer's "aesthetic of happiness," his way to the "silent novel," Doderer' Vienna, the "fatalogical weft" of the late work and the "excess of observation" that can be observed in Doderer's work. "I cannot and will not . . . view him coldly," writes Weber. "I . . . say nothing about him that would make me unable to look him in the eye. I suppose that's what they call self-consciousness." Dietrich Weber's shorter writings thus encompass the subjective summation of an involvement with Doderer that has lasted well over forty years - in the form of Doderer Miniatures. |
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