20th Century Lit

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Well into the twenty-first century, literature and culture are torn between a need to belong, to find and maintain order in teh alrger society and a need to explore unfettered individuality, to strike out on new paths. Literature reflects the allure of both past-oriented traditionalism as renewal and resolute experimentalism in all forms of art. Authors can include Thomas Mann and Alfred Doblin; Rainer Maria Rilke and Goffried Benn; Odon von Horvath and Friedrich Durrenmatt in the twentieth century, along with later generations of experimentalists like Ernst Jandl, Ingeborg Bachmann, Reinhard Priessnitz, Gert Jonke, and Elfriede Jelinek.