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Document Details : Title: Over werkelijkheid, fictie en postmodernisme Subtitle: Enkele opmerkingen bij recente publicaties over het werk van Arnon Grunberg Author(s): VITSE, Sven Journal: Spiegel der Letteren Volume: 54 Issue: 1 Date: 2012 Pages: 93-105 DOI: 10.2143/SDL.54.1.2152724 Abstract : The year 2010 saw the publication of two volumes of academic discussions of the work of the Dutch writer Arnon Grunberg. The academic reception of Grunberg’s oeuvre signals a development in the author’s attitude towards irony and commitment and, moreover, enters itself into a critical dialogue with postmodernism. This article reviews the scholarly literature on Grunberg. In their attempt to oppose Grunberg to postmodernism some scholars draw a one-sided and tendentious picture of this complex literary and philosophical phenomenon. Furthermore, concepts such as irony and relativism, and fiction and reality are often used in a reductionist or confusing manner. The aim of this contribution is to analyse such problems in the scientific discourse of the Grunberg study. |
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