GM 063 Triumphs and Failings of Modern Man (Fall: 3)

Cross Listed with EN 084
Satisfies Literature Core Requirement
Offered Biennially
Conducted in English with all texts in English translation.
Counts toward German major, German minor, and German Studies minor.

This course focuses on a number of themes which characterize human existence in our time but are at the same time perennial themes: death, life, illness, suffering, war, and the role of the scientist in the modern world. Twentieth century German, Swiss and Austrian writers will be discussed. The following works will be discussed in class: Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (novel); Sigmund Freud, An Outline of Psychoanalysis (essay); Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (novel); Wolfgang Borchert, The Man Outside (play and stories); Heinrich Boll, Stories; Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Physicists (play).
Christoph Eykman

Last Updated: 02-MAY-08