The paper reads Alfred Döblin’s novel Amazonas (1937/1938) in the context of current debates about world literature. It argues that these debates not only refer to a certain group of texts or to a literary system, but concern problems of reading and representation, namely how to read literature beyond the paradigms of national and comparative literature and how to represent a world, especially the modern globalized and secularized world. Döblin’s novel refers to different meanings of ‘world’ that are implied in these questions: It depicts the ‘discovery’ and violent colonization of the ‘New World’ both from the perspective of the indigene people and the Europeans, as well as the ‘Jesuit republic’ as a different project of colonization with an utopian aspect. Written in exile, it also uses the detour via an exotic setting to diagnose a crisis of Europe. Finally it tries to develop a narrative form beyond the novel, using different forms of mythic but also topographic narration which are figured as the materiality of the Amazonas-‘stream.’

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“Das indianische Kanaan”：Alfred Döblins Amazonas 的世界文学、流放和历史流放

这篇论文在当前关于世界文学的辩论的背景下阅读了阿尔弗雷德·德布林的小说亚马逊 (1937/1938)。它认为，这些争论不仅涉及某一组文本或某个文学体系，还涉及阅读和再现问题，即如何超越民族和比较文学范式阅读文学，如何再现一个世界，尤其是现代全球化和世俗化的世界。德布林的小说提到了这些问题所暗示的“世界”的不同含义：它从原住民和欧洲人的角度以及“耶稣会士”的角度描绘了“新世界”的“发现”和暴力殖民。共和国”作为具有乌托邦色彩的不同殖民项目。写于流放，它还通过异国情调的绕道来诊断欧洲的危机。最后，它试图开发一种超越小说的叙事形式，使用不同形式的神话和地形叙事，这些叙事被认为是亚马逊河流域的物质性。