Down to the Bone. Medical Interventions in Max Blecher’s Works
Down to the Bone. Medical Interventions in Max Blecher’s Works

Summary/Abstract: A writer of the body and its myriad pains, Max Blecher is also an emblematic author that vividly reveals, in a tragic, authentic manner, the intersection of medicine and literature. His visionary, oneiric novels are singular and unusual pathographies, writings about disease that document Blecher’s exhausting and hopeless decade-long battle with bone tuberculosis. I intend to explore the novels Scarred Hearts (1937) and The Lightened Burrow (1938; 1971) in order to confirm the centrality of medical intervention in his modern vision of the body, sickness and pain.

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