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I've recently become obsessed with 1920s literature. Can anyone point me toward any great 1920s literature that involves monstrosity? Something like Flannery O'Connor's, "The Displaced Person" that paints the immigrant and capitalist system as a monster. Or maybe technological progress as a demonic element that lead to the destruction of WWI and consequential social upheaval demonstrated in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.
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>>8604880
Some of Lovecraft's stories have monsters
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>>8604883
lol
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A bit past the time period you request, but Foucault wrote about "the monstrous."
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>>8604880
Dos Passos USA trilogy is my favourite of the lost generation. Doesn't necessarily paint progress as evil but explores the changing society and compares themes like "the arrival of the immigrant" to "the dying socialite family". Great period pieces. Writing style like a cross between Joyce and Fitzgerald.
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>>8604880
Journey to the End of the Night is exactly what you're looking for. Amazing novel.
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>>8605634
Check out the literature of the Weimar Republic
Ernst Jünger: Storm of Steel
Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz
Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
Erich Kästner: Fabian
Gottfried Benn
Hans Fallada: Little Man, What Now?
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