By stressing the idea of fragment or disruptive procedures rooted in the classical European avant-gardes, most scholarship regards it as self-evident that Müller's approach to tradition always retains its negativity. This seems often to enclose his achievements in the same aporias that once determined the failure of these movements. Nevertheless, in regard to a peripheral (i.e. non-European) context, Heiner Mueller pointed in 1979 to a "social realism"...
