Lutz Seiler’s Kruso – Social Utopia, Pastoral Mystery Novel and Picaresque Robinsonade

Heiko Ullrich

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Lutz Seilers Kruso – soziale Utopie, pastoraler Feuilletonroman und pikareske Robinsonade

Abstract

Lutz Seilers Kruso – soziale Utopie, pastoraler Feuilletonroman und pikareske Robinsonade

Keywords

Lutz Seilers Kruso,Utopie

Lutz Seiler’s Kruso – Social Utopia, Pastoral Mystery Novel and Picaresque Robinsonade

Abstract

Lutz Seiler’s first novel Kruso, published in 2014, is based on a genre of undisputed popularity: the robinsonade, named after Daniel Defoes famous Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719). Numerous hints in Seiler’s text point at this model, but the pattern of his plot follows a specifically German tradition of the robinsonade. This tradition stems from Johann Gottfried Schnabel’s Wunderliche Fata einiger See-Fahrer (1731-1743), known also under the title Insel Felsenburg, invented by the editor Ludwig Tieck in 1828. Schnabel combines the robinsonade with the genre of Utopia by describing an ideal state on the island of Felsenburg, with the mystery novel by letting his figures discover pre-Christian sanctuaries all over the island, and the picaresque by including the protagonist’s retrospect after leaving the island of his adventure. This analysis of Schnabel’s novel, undertaken by Günter Dammann in 1997, will proof to be a usefull tool for further enquiry in Seiler’s Kruso

Keywords

Lutz Seiler,Kruso,Johann Gottfried Schnabel,intertextuality,subgenres of the novel

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References

Macchia, Giovanni (1978): Il principe di Palagonia. Mostri, sogni, prodigi nelle metamorfosi di un personaggio, Mondadori, Milano.

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English

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Research Article

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Heiko Ullrich This is me
Universität Heidelberg
Germany

Publication Date

October 1, 2015

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August 6, 2017

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Year 2015 Volume: 2 Number: 34

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Ullrich, H. (2015). Lutz Seiler’s Kruso – Social Utopia, Pastoral Mystery Novel and Picaresque Robinsonade. Studien Zur Deutschen Sprache Und Literatur, 2(34), 47-58. https://izlik.org/JA65YL89FR

AMA

1.Ullrich H. Lutz Seiler’s Kruso – Social Utopia, Pastoral Mystery Novel and Picaresque Robinsonade. Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur. 2015;2(34):47-58. https://izlik.org/JA65YL89FR

Chicago

Ullrich, Heiko. 2015. “Lutz Seiler’s Kruso – Social Utopia, Pastoral Mystery Novel and Picaresque Robinsonade”. Studien Zur Deutschen Sprache Und Literatur 2 (34): 47-58. https://izlik.org/JA65YL89FR.

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Ullrich H (October 1, 2015) Lutz Seiler’s Kruso – Social Utopia, Pastoral Mystery Novel and Picaresque Robinsonade. Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur 2 34 47–58.

IEEE

[1]H. Ullrich, “Lutz Seiler’s Kruso – Social Utopia, Pastoral Mystery Novel and Picaresque Robinsonade”, Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur, vol. 2, no. 34, pp. 47–58, Oct. 2015, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA65YL89FR

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Ullrich, Heiko. “Lutz Seiler’s Kruso – Social Utopia, Pastoral Mystery Novel and Picaresque Robinsonade”. Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur 2/34 (October 1, 2015): 47-58. https://izlik.org/JA65YL89FR.

JAMA

1.Ullrich H. Lutz Seiler’s Kruso – Social Utopia, Pastoral Mystery Novel and Picaresque Robinsonade. Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur. 2015;2:47–58.

MLA

Ullrich, Heiko. “Lutz Seiler’s Kruso – Social Utopia, Pastoral Mystery Novel and Picaresque Robinsonade”. Studien Zur Deutschen Sprache Und Literatur, vol. 2, no. 34, Oct. 2015, pp. 47-58, https://izlik.org/JA65YL89FR.

Vancouver

1.Heiko Ullrich. Lutz Seiler’s Kruso – Social Utopia, Pastoral Mystery Novel and Picaresque Robinsonade. Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur [Internet]. 2015 Oct. 1;2(34):47-58. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA65YL89FR