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This article focuses on the Third Reich diaries of the German-Jewish professor of French literature Victor Klemperer. As an epitext (cf. Genette 1992), the diaries show the different production stages of his language-critical study LTI and a commentary of his autobiography Curriculum Vitae. Gérard Genette (1992: 369) understands the diary in general as a „private epitext“, a hermeneutical comment that may offer insightful information and ...

The aim of this paper is to describe Mauro CovacichU+2019s use of self-reflective devices, such as metafiction, autofiction, and autobiography in Prima di sparire, where the author focuses his analysis on the crisis of identity of the contemporary subject, and represents his own crisis on the one hand as a writer and on the other hand as an ordinary person. In this essay, a short introduction to CovacichU+2019s novelist production will ...

In this essay, I present a “queer” reading of the (post)colonial novels by Jef Geeraerts, a Flemish author infamous for his explicit depictions of sex and violence in the Belgian Congo. I demonstrate how both his racism and misogyny feed on a homoerotic dynamic that appears to destabilize hegemonic colonial discourse, but is actually mobilized as a literary strategy to forge a new kind of white masculinity in the “heart of darkness.” Despite ...