Abstract
The modernist turn -- Viennese Baroque : temporality and allegory in Die Schlafwandler of Hermann Broch -- The cloud of Polonius : rewriting reality in Robert Musil's Mann ohne Eigenschaften -- The lamentation of Josef K. : conscience and irony on Pafka's Prozess -- In the crystal garden : the replenishment of art and the ecology of man in Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus.