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Karl-May-Sekundär-Literatur

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Florian Ulrich Krobb, (Florian Krobb):
‘BIS ZUM HORIZONTE DIESER KLEINEN WELT’: TRAVEL WRITING, UTOPIANISM, AND KARL MAY. ROBERT MÜLLER'S TROPEN
In: Modern Language Review, Great Britain - 2015-10
Jahrgang: 110
Ausgabe: 4
Seite: 1067 - 1085

The article argues that Robert Müller's Expressionist critique of colonialism as an opportunity for perfection and renewal benefits from acknowledgement of Müller's encounter with Karl May, then Germany's most popular writer of adventurous travel literature. In Tropen (1915) Müller engages with May through an interplay of affirmation (of May's utopian universality) and demarcation (from the latter's optimistic naivety) amounting to a farcical inversion of many assumptions of travel writing. A glance at Georg Heym's unfinished Das Tagebuch Shakletons (1909) suggests similarities regarding a shared epistemological scepticism which challenges any belief in the ability of travel to generate knowledge and insight.