Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Voices of the vacuum: monologue in Schopenhauer, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche -- Unworldly anarchism: Gustav Landauer's nihilist community -- Society of nobodies: Franz Kafka and the communal vacuum -- Monologue overgrown: the language of hypertrophy in Thomas Bernhard's Leichtlebig -- Nobody's friends: outsider community in Wolfgang Hilbig's prose -- Conclusion.
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