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Self-Awareness and Irony Martin Walser101k Wordscompleted This book is a collection of five lectures given by the contemporary German writer Martin Walser in the "Frankfurt Poetics Lectures". Martin Walser questions the prevailing concept of irony in the 20th century, which originated mainly with Thomas Mann. He carefully teases out a literary origin: from Friedrich Schlegel's definition of bourgeois-romantic irony to the pinnacle of this kind of irony, Thomas Mann's "Tonio Krueger". Martin Walser believes that here, irony is a means of establishing th 7Reads8.3Score—Shelves