Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Voices of the Vacuum: Monologue in Schopenhauer, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche
Chapter 2. Unworldly Anarchism: Gustav Landauer’s Nihilist Community
Chapter 3. Society of Nobodies: Franz Kafka and the Communal Vacuum
Chapter 4. Monologue Overgrown: The Language of Hypertrophy in Thomas Bernhard’s Leichtlebig
Chapter 5. Nobody’s Friends: Outsider Community in Wolfgang Hilbig’s Prose
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index