ABSTRACT

The year 1925 marks both the publication of Thomas Mann’s novella Unordnung und frühes Leid and the debut of his son Klaus as a novelist with the writing of Der fromme Tanz (published in 1926), two texts deeply concerned with the disruption of normative orders. Drawing on contemporary Weimar debates around new choreographic practices and (homo)sexuality, this article develops a comparative reading of the two texts, exploring the way in which they use dance as an intergenerational site for the re-articulation of sexual codes. Inspired by Nietzschean philosophy, images of choreographic order and disorder, in particular, become the literary means through which father and son negotiate their own, contrasting relationship with same-sex desire.

摘要

1925 年既标志着托马斯曼的中篇小说Unordnung und frühes Leid的出版，也标志着他的儿子克劳斯作为小说家的首次亮相，并撰写了Der fromme Tanz（出版于 1926 年），这两部文本深切关注规范秩序的破坏。借鉴当代魏玛围绕新编舞实践和（同性恋）性行为的辩论，本文对两篇文章进行了比较阅读，探索了他们将舞蹈作为代际场所重新表达性代码的方式。受尼采哲学的启发，舞蹈秩序和混乱的形象尤其成为父子协商自己与同性欲望的对比关系的文学手段。