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Becoming Fiction: Reassessing Atheism In Duerrenmatt's 'Stoffe': 131
Becoming Fiction Reassessing Atheism in Durrenmatt's Stoffe sets forth a clarification of the importance of Friedrich Durrenmatt modern Swiss dramatist essayist novelist and self-proclaimed atheist (1921-1990) and offers new insights into the ways in which his father's vocation as a Protestant minister along with Durrenmatt's own decision as a young man to pursue a career in writing rather than religion shaped his world view and in particular made necessary a final desperate attempt to fictionally recast his own life through revisions and amplifications of many of his earlier works when he created his final prose volume Stoffe Durrenmatt devoted immense energy in his writings to wrestling with his father's God as a way of seeking self-identity That perceived loss of his father's esteem
became the motor behind his works After earlier successes the icy reception of his most ambitious play Der Mitmacher in 1976 left the author in such a frustrated state of disappointment that he reached a point of linguistic breakdown This book contends that Durrenmatt's loss of voice forced the author to a new kind of writing a re-turn' home Becoming Fiction explores the damage caused by Durrenmatt's inability to express his most central beliefs through the outdated deceptive modes of linguistic thought and tradition Consequently the book argues at the point of that breakdown of rigid linguistic and theological concepts a space was forced open and the Stoffe reveal a Divine presence
became the motor behind his works After earlier successes the icy reception of his most ambitious play Der Mitmacher in 1976 left the author in such a frustrated state of disappointment that he reached a point of linguistic breakdown This book contends that Durrenmatt's loss of voice forced the author to a new kind of writing a re-turn' home Becoming Fiction explores the damage caused by Durrenmatt's inability to express his most central beliefs through the outdated deceptive modes of linguistic thought and tradition Consequently the book argues at the point of that breakdown of rigid linguistic and theological concepts a space was forced open and the Stoffe reveal a Divine presence
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