Dealing with antyliterature German writer Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915), antymilitarist, antierotic man, anti-capitalist, antyrationalist, antinaturalist and anti-European, called the ʻantist’ is the author, whose works focus on the various borders and attempts their crossing.
Deeply rooted in the autobiography of the writer, they symbolize above all the limitations of a man who can not meet the provisions it has taken.
These boundaries may have its basis in the nature of the surrounding characters - eg.
In the novel „Immer mutig!” - where the limit is impassable mountain terrain, and the situation becomes hopeless in the beginning part of the action.
Among undertaken by Scheerbart topics are also the borders between people that are impassable, and their stiffness entails physical suffering and spiritual.
Another example may be a partial cross borders, eg. violence, moderation and physics.
In some of his works Scheerbart completely rejects boundaries, creating his characters on the form of incorporeal and asexual and able to move in any chosen direction, unlimited space, free from the mundane, drives, need to satisfy hunger and thirst, but enslaved constraints, fear.
One of the interesting topics that take the author, is the issue of sexuality and attempt to blur the boundaries between the sexes.
Topics taken by Scheerbart were embedded in a rich and intoxicating the senses scenery of the Orient.
The author bases in part on scientific studies and refers to historical events, for the most part, however, is developing his vision of the Orient.
October 2016
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