Midcentury Suspension

How did literary artists confront the middle of a century already defined by two global wars and newly faced with a nuclear future? Claire Seiler argues that a sense of suspension—a feeling of being between beginnings and endings, recent horrors and opaque horizons—shaped transatlantic literary forms and cultural expression in this singular moment.

Cum s-au confruntat artistii literari la mijlocul unui secol deja definit de doua razboaie globale si nou confruntati cu un viitor nuclear? Claire Seiler sustine ca un sentiment de suspensie - un sentiment de a fi intre inceputuri si sfarsite, orori recente si forme opace de literatura transatlantica in forma de orizont si expresie culturala in acest moment singular.