LITERATUR UND ANTHROPOLOGIE AM BEISPIEL VON ROBERT MÜLLERS UND ERNST JÜNGERS WERK
LITERATURE AND ANTHROPOLOGY (ON THE PRODUCTIONS OF ROBERT MÜLLER AND ERNST JÜNGER)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to examine some works of two authors from the first half of the 20th century, both native speakers of the German language in order to look for common mental constructs and symbols. Many literary critics comparing Robert Muller and Ernst Junger emphasize the similar roles they played in the literatures of Austria and Germany, respectively. Robert Muller and Ernst Junger leave the impression that they search for order in the contradictory universe and if they do not find it, they create it. They are both social analysts, they are multi-talented, both dreamers and travelers, obsessed by pure ideas, within whose framework they try to sort out everything that exists, they are both idealists. Robert Muller is Head of the Academic Society for Literature and Music in Vienna and founder of the illicit organization "Katakomba" and the Vienna Association of Magazines Pubishers and author of numerous publications. Despite the numerous attempts to portray his work in its true light and to show his great role in the Germanspeaking cultural area, Ernst Junger's reception in Germany is permanently marked by his image of the person and officer Ernst Junger. The reasons for this is, on the one hand, moral tabooing in Germany after the Second World War, and, on the other hand, his internal development, which has transformed the "scandalous" young writer into a fully integrated member of bourgeois life which he used to highly criticize in his early years.

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