Beyond Repetition: Karl Kraus's "Absolute Satire"

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Linden, Ari

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Literary criticism

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Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, United states

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2013

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German Studies Review, Volume 36, Issue 3, 2013, pages 515-536

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eng

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[Karl Kraus] then makes a categorical distinction between polemic and satire, arguing that [Heinrich Heine]'s polemical writings cannot claim the status of true satire because they are wedded exclusively to the material circumstances and thus the historical moment that occasioned their production, the Stoff ("material") as Kraus calls it, a condition that prevents them from transcending their journalistic essence.23 A polemic speaks to this or that particularity, such as Heine's notorious literary feud with August Graf von Platen that dissolved into personal attacks against the latter's alleged homosexuality, but once the immediate moment has passed, its relevance expires and its content reveals itself to be empty of lasting significance. And Kraus adds that "whoever mocks his rival's poverty can come up with no better a joke than: Platen's Oedipus would 'not have been so bitter if the writer had had more to bite on' [wäre nicht so bissig gewor- den, wenn der Verfasser mehr zu beißen gehabt hätte]. A bad disposition [Gesinnung] can only yield bad jokes."24 Simply stated, Heine's polemical-journalistic tendencies have, for Kraus, affected (or infected) his satirical sensibility. By so concluding, Kraus suggests that satire can be divided into its authentic and its inauthentic iterations.

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Beyond Repetition: Karl Kraus's "Absolute Satire"

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