Ritual and Report

Tóibín, Colm; McGahern, John; Moore, Brian C. J.

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“…While Setzwein is not especially well-known at national level in Germany – indeed he is probably better-known in Austria, where many of his books have been published – Colm Tóibín is undoubtedly one of Ireland’s leading writers. While several of his novels, stories and non-fiction works deal with Ireland, Tóibín also speaks Spanish and Catalan, has lived in Barcelona and Argentina and has published Hispanic-themed short stories and essays, as well as the novels The South (1990), set partly in Catalonia in the 1950s, and The Story of the Night (1997), set in Argentina during the military dictatorship of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Tóibín has also published a personal-essayistic cultural history of the Catalonian capital called Homage to Barcelona (2002), as well as a book of essays engaging with Catholicism in various European contexts entitled The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (2001), first published in 1995.…”

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Depicting European federalists in fiction: Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in Bernhard Setzwein’s Der böhmische Samurai (2017) and Heinrich Mann in Colm Tóibín’s The Magician (2021)

Lenehan

2023

Journal of European Studies

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This article analyses the representation of Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in Bernhard Setzwein’s Der böhmische Samurai (2017) and Heinrich Mann in Colm Tóibín’s The Magician (2021). This discussion is situated in a number of wider contexts, including literary European Studies within German and Irish Literary Studies; existing representations of European federalists/Europeanists; the actual European thought of Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and Heinrich Mann; and the oeuvre of the novelists Bernhard Setzwein and Colm Tóibín. It is argued that the representation of European federalists in recent novels enables us to analyse common attitudes and understandings of Europe and Europeanness in the current environment of Euroscepticism, self-questioning, and self-doubt at the institutional as well as constituent levels. It is also argued that the European federalists Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and Heinrich Mann are represented as European cosmopolitans: Both are depicted as existing within a wide variety of transnational links, as remaining deeply sceptical of nationalism, especially in its violent form, and as arguing for the extension of the space of the political, beyond the national. Their depiction is, thus, of intellectual figures who laid some of the ideational groundwork for the creation of later European institutions, undertaking this reflective task from the perspective of an idealistic, pacifist and deeply democratic cosmopolitanism.

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Depicting European federalists in fiction: Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in Bernhard Setzwein’s Der böhmische Samurai (2017) and Heinrich Mann in Colm Tóibín’s The Magician (2021)

Lenehan

2023

Journal of European Studies

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Ritual and Report

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Depicting European federalists in fiction: Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in Bernhard Setzwein’s Der böhmische Samurai (2017) and Heinrich Mann in Colm Tóibín’s The Magician (2021)

Depicting European federalists in fiction: Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in Bernhard Setzwein’s Der böhmische Samurai (2017) and Heinrich Mann in Colm Tóibín’s The Magician (2021)

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