En las fauces de la muerte y la locura: reflexiones en torno a la prosa de Georg Heym

Abstract

This article proposes to study a prominent figure of the German expressionist movement little known in Spanish: Georg Heym. Notorious especially for his poetry and the strong influence that it exercised on the development of lyrics in 20th-century Germany, the study seeks to explore the author's lesser-known strand: his Novellen. Through this genre, the author radicalizes his aesthetic explorations, at the same time that he exposes the ideological formations of the bourgeoisie of the German Empire. In this sense, the present work offers also a political reading and the consequences of expressionist artistic creation in the spiritual configuration of National Socialism and the German identity. To investigate in depth these relations between philosophy, politics and literature in Wilhelmine Germany, a selection of the author's most emblematic Novellen is taken into consideration. With this in mind, the article presents a renewed reading of a fundamental author in the history of German literature.