Alexander Kluge , "Das Politische als Intensitat alltaglicher Gefuhle", Freibeuter, i (1979), 56-62, p. 58.
2.
Ibid., 59.
3.
Hermann Broch, Die Schlafwandler (Frankfurt, 1978). All translations are my own and aim at literalness before elegance. Broch's syntax is often tortuous and it seems to me invidious to try and make it seem more accessible than it is.
4.
Materialien zu Hermann Brochs "Die Shalfwandler" ed. by Gisela Brude-Firnau Frankfurt, 1972), 73.
5.
Alfred Schmidt, Die Kritische Theorie als Geschichtsphilosophie (Munich and Vienna, 1976), 103.
6.
The best large-scale demonstration of this is Karl Robert Mandelkow , Hermann Brochs Romantrilogie "Die Schalfwandler" , with a new introduction (Heidelberg, 1975).
7.
See also J.J. White, "The Identity and Function of Bertrand in Hermann Broch's Die Schlafwandler" , in German Life and Letters, XXIV (1971), 135-44, p. 143: "Die Schlafwandler is first and foremost a novel of Geschichtsphilosophie. Hence Bertrand's enigmatic function can only be explained in this light."
8.
This conception of the novel is derived from Mikhail Bakhtin and will be explained in more detail later.
9.
Mandelkow, op. cit. (ref. 6), 210-11.
10.
Ibid., 210.
11.
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno , Dialektik der Aufklärung ( Frankfurt, 1971 ), 27.
12.
Peter Bruckner, Psychologie und Geschichte (Berlin, 1982), 163.
13.
See the present author's Ph.D. thesis "Problems of Historical Understanding in the Modem Novel" (University of East Anglia, 1980, unpublished).
14.
Theodor W. Adorno, Versuch uber Wagner (Frankfurt, 1974 ), 112.
15.
M.M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination (Austin, Texas, 1981), 20.
16.
Ibid., 148.
17.
Adorno, op. cit. (ref. 13), 121.
18.
Bakhtin, op. cit. (ref. 14), 262-3.
19.
Ibid., 33.
20.
Andrew Bowie , "New Histories: Aspects of the Prose of Alexander Kluge", in Journal of European Studies , xii (1982), 180-208,
21.
and "'Sich rachen ist eine komplizierte Arbeitsleistung.' Uberlegungen zur Vergangenhertsbewaltigung am Beispiel Alexander Kluges", in Literatur und Erfahrung , vi (1981), 69-84.
22.
See also Über Alexander Kluge , ed. by Thomas Bohm-Christ (Frankfurt , 1983), which is in the main concerned with the literary significance of Kluge.
