Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.17234/ZGB.30.7

The Flexible Man on the High Seas. On the novel "Global Fish" by Rainald Grebe

Tilman Venzl ; University of Bielefeld

Abstract

The paper analyzes "Global Fish" (2006), Rainald Grebe’s only novel to date, with respect to Richard Sennett’s critique of modern financial capitalism. In his formally and thematically heterogenous sea novel, Grebe takes up Sennett’s concept of the ›flexible man‹. On the one hand, he connects it to the topic of the contemporary attitude towards life, and on the other hand he allows it to become an aesthetic principle by explication, reification and retelling of the flexibility metaphor. The novel "Global Fish", in which the sea appears as a world space of action defined by violence in the digital era, can
be understood as Grebe’s seminal work with explanatory potential regarding his other creative areas.

Keywords

Rainald Grebe; "Global Fish"; financial capitalism; Richard Sennett; flexible man

Hrčak ID:

272142

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/272142

Publication date:

1.2.2022.

Article data in other languages: german

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