View Item 
  •   e_Buah Home
  • REVISTAS DE LA UAH
  • Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
  • Ecozon@ - Vol. 03, Núm. 1, 2012
  • View Item
  • REVISTAS DE LA UAH
  • Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
  • Ecozon@ - Vol. 03, Núm. 1, 2012
  • View Item
  • Biblioteca
    • English
    • español
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Surviving to tell the tale: Josef Haslinger’s Phi Phi Island (2007)

  View metrics of use
RefworksUtilizar EndNote Import
Authors
Gerstenberger, Katharina
Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20852
Publisher
Universidad de Alcalá
Date
2012-04
Bibliographic citation
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, vol. 3, n. 1 (2012), pp. 31-41
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Publisher's version
http://ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/214/550
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
Literary texts about historical disasters tend to offer moral, political, or scientific interpretations of the occurrence that go well beyond the immediate experience of a catastrophe. They are, almost exclusively, written by people who did not in fact experience the catastrophic event. Survivor accounts, by contrast, typically do not have literary qualities. "Phi Phi Island", the Austrian writer and essayist Josef Haslinger's literary report on how he and his family lived through the tsunami of 2004, is an exception. Point of departure for Haslinger's narrative is his inability to rejoice in the fact that he is alive. Carefully crafted and beautifully realized, his text combines the reconstruction of the events with reflections about how one can tell such a story in the first place. This essay analyzes Haslinger's strategies for coming to terms with the coincidence of survival, observing that the very personal nature of the report stands in noticeable contrast to the writer's commitment to political commentary in his other works.
 
Los textos literarios acerca de los desastres históricos tienden a ofrecer interpretaciones morales, políticas o científicas del suceso que van mucho más allá de la experiencia inmediata de una catástrofe. Son, casi exclusivamente, escritos por personas que de hecho no experimentaron el acontecimiento catastrófico. Las versiones de los supervivientes, por el contrario, no suelen tener calidad literaria. "Phi Phi Island", el informe literario del escritor y ensayista austríaco Josef Haslinger sobre cómo él y su familia vivieron el tsunami de 2004, es una excepción. El punto de partida de la narrativa de Haslinger es su incapacidad de regocijarse en el hecho de que está vivo. Cuidadosamente construido y bellamente realizado, su texto combina la reconstrucción de los hechos con reflexiones acerca de cómo uno, en principio, puede contar tal historia. Este ensayo analiza las estrategias de Haslinger para llegar a aceptar la coincidencia de sobrevivir, observando que la naturaleza sumamente personal del informe se manifiesta en contraste evidente con el compromiso del comentario político expuesto por el escritor en sus otros trabajos.
 

Show full item record

Files in this item
FilesSizeFormat
View
surviving_Gerstenberger_ecozon ...606.7KbPDF
FilesSizeFormat
View
surviving_Gerstenberger_ecozon ...606.7KbPDF
Collections
  • Ecozon@ - Vol. 03, Núm. 1, 2012 [21]

Contact Us | Send Feedback | About DSpace
@mire NV@mire NV@mire NV
@mire NV@mire NV
 

 

Browse

All of e_BuahCommunities y CollectionsIssue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsMastersDegreesDepartmentsResearch groupsIn this CollectionIssue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsMastersDegreesDepartmentsResearch groups

My Account

My e_BuahCreate account

Help

What is e-Buah?Guide e_BuahDeposit documentsFAQContact us

Statistics

View Usage Statistics

Information

Open Science. Open accessOpen Science PolicyPublishing permissionsCopyrightResearch datae-cienciaDatos RepositoryPlan de Gestión de Datos

Los contenidos se difunden en


Contact Us | Send Feedback | About DSpace
@mire NV@mire NV@mire NV
@mire NV@mire NV