Hans-Jost Frey – författare

This untraditional text is a series of parables, allegories, and prose poems that reflect on the problem of the fragment. Studying the fragment lays the theoretical ground for the basic question of where a text begins and ends.Interruptions is a highly original book which refuses characterization as either literature or theory. Hans-Jost Frey explores the problem of the fragment both from a more traditional critical perspective, discussing the peculiar status of the fragmentary text in literary studies, and in a performative or exemplary way through fictional texts and short meditations. In its forays beyond the narrower realm of literary criticism, Frey addresses in turn such crucial issues as the law, personal history, death, and the constraints of understanding, revealing in each case the fundamental role the fragment plays in them.

A Stanford University Press classic.

Henrici zeigt den renommierten Zürcher Literaturwissenschaftler Hans-Jost Frey von einer neuen Seite: In 63 kurzen Geschichten lässt Hans-Jost Frey sein alter ego Henrici anhand alltäglicher Situationen und geläufiger Redewendungen über das nachdenken, was wir allzuoft gedankenlos tun und sagen, und das von A wie Ausland bis Z wie Zukunft.