Rundholz, Adelheid

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The Art of Being: Haruki Murakami’s Killing Commendatore and Kierkegaardian Existentialism
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2025) Rundholz, A.; Kirca, M.
The protagonist of Killing Commendatore retreats to deal with the trauma of divorce. Pivotal to the protagonist’s journey is his discovery of a painting. Depicting a scene from Mozart’s opera, Don Giovanni, the painting marks the protagonist’s departure to finding meaning in a complex world. His self-discovery hinges on the arts, leading the protagonist to grasp his essence and place in an indifferent and absurd universe. Fantastic and surreal events in the novel can be seen as an adaptation of Kierkegaard’s existentialism, a reinterpretation of the philosopher’s tenets to fit the twenty-first century. © 2025 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Unwelcome Consequences: Christina Dalcher’s Vox and John Lanchester’s the Wall
(Faculty of Philology, University of Bialystok, 2022) Rundholz, A.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistsʼ Doomsday Clock, first introduced in 1947, recently moved the fictional clock forward; it now rests at 100 seconds to midnight, or 100 seconds from destroying our-selves. The numerous threats posed by nuclear weapons, pandemics, weaponized technology, and cata-strophic climate change create an ʻenvironment of miseryʼ in which all action—and all inaction—is fraught with risk. Two recent novels employ dystopian visions of the United States and Britain, respectively, and explore the consequences of social engineering that takes place to minimize (perceived) risks and increase safety. Dalcherʼs Vox (2018) and Lanchesterʼs The Wall (2019) are two novels that are a commentary on a world in which risk is pervasive and in which (in)action can exacerbate dire circumstances. At the same time, the novels highlight that local (national) action is doomed to fail if it does not also consider the global interconnectedness of challenges and risks. © 2022, Faculty of Philology, University of Bialystok. All rights reserved.
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Reading Rushdie in Translation: Midnight's Children, Postcolonial Writing/Translation, and Literatures of the World
(Edinburgh Univ Press, 2021) Rundholz, Adelheid; Kirca, Mustafa

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