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Author | : Franz Fühmann |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1992-01 |
Genre | : Budapest (Hungary) |
ISBN | : 9780224033398 |
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Enchanted and intrigued by Budapest, the author sketches it with words: its bridges, people, language, literature, history and food. At the turning point in his life he reflects upon a past in which he embraced both fascism and communism. Throughout this meditation, he writes poetry, he writes about poetry and he writes about the purpose of art.
Author | : Dennis Tate |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2023-12-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004654623 |
Download Franz Fühmann: Innovation and Authenticity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first full-length study of the life and works of Franz Fühmann (1922-1984) to be published in English. It provides a complete reassessment of his importance as a prose-writer, informed by the extensive corpus of Fühmann's writing which has only appeared posthumously or is now accessible in the archives of the Akademie der Künste in East Berlin. Dennis Tate argues that, from the middle 1950s onwards, Fühmann's prose writing is both stylistically innovative and committed to the authentic representation of his experience, thereby challenging the conventional wisdom that little writing of international significance could be produced in the ideological context of the GDR until Honecker introduced his `no taboos' cultural policy in 1971. Fühmann's widely praised later texts (ranging from the autobiographical Zweiundzwanzig Tage oder Die Hälfte des Lebens and Vor Feuerschlünden to mythical and satirical short stories such as `Marsyas' and `Drei nackte Männer') can now be seen as the culmination of an impressive creative development rather than as the result of a late conversion to literary truthfulness. The volume will be of interest to students and teachers of post-1945 German literature as well as to general readers aware of the vitality of Central European culture throughout the period of East-West ideological division.
Author | : Harold B. Segel |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780231114042 |
Download The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Iron Curtain concealed from western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Marked by not only geographical proximity but also by the shared experience of communism and its collapse, the countries of Eastern Europe--Poland, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and the former states of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany--share literatures that reveal many common themes when examined together. Compiled by a leading scholar, the guide includes an overview of literary trends in historical context; a listing of some 700 authors by country; and an A-to-Z section of articles on the most influential writers.
Author | : Birgit Dahlke |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1571133135 |
Download German Life Writing in the Twentieth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Life-writing", an increasingly accepted category among scholars of literature and other disciplines, encompasses not just autobiography and biography, but also memoirs, diaries, letters, interviews, and even non-written texts such as film. Whether these were produced in diary or letter form as events unfolded or long after the event in the form of autobiographical prose, common to all are attempts by individuals to make sense of their experiences. In many such texts, the authors reassess their lives against the background of a broader public debate about the past. This book of essays examines German life-writing after major turning points in twentieth-century German history: the First World War, the Nazi era, the postwar division of Germany, and the collapse of socialism and German unification. The volume is distinctive because it combines an overview of academic approaches to the study of life-writing with a set of German-language case studies. In this respect it goes further than existing studies, which often present life-writing material without indicating how it might fit into our broader understanding of a particular culture or historical period.
Author | : John Sandford |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1258 |
Release | : 2013-04-03 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1136816100 |
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With more than 1,100 entries written by an international group of over 150 contributors, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture brings together myriad strands of social, political and cultural life in the post-1945 German-speaking world. With a unique structure and format, an inclusive treatment of the concept of culture, and coverage of East, West and post-unification Germany, as well as Austria and Switzerland, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture is the first reference work of its kind. Containing longer overviews of up to 2,000 words, as well as shorter factual entries, cross-referencing to other relevant articles, useful further reading suggestions and extensive indexing, this highly useable volume provides the scholar, teacher, student or non-specialist with an astonishing breadth and depth of information.
Author | : Benjamin Robinson |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2009-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804772487 |
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The Skin of the System objects to the idea that there is only one modernity—that of liberal capitalism. Starting from the simple conviction that whatever else East German socialism was, it was real, this book focuses on what made historical socialism different from social systems in the West. In this way, the study elicits the general question: what must we think in order to think an other system at all? To approach this question, Robinson turns to the remarkable writer Franz Fühmann, the East German who most single-mindedly dedicated himself to understanding what it means to transform from fascism to socialism. Fühmann's own serial loyalties to Hitler and Stalin inform his existential meditations on change and difference. By placing Fühmann's politically alert and intensely personal literary inventions in the context of an inquiry into radical social rupture, The Skin of the System wrests the brutal materiality of twentieth-century socialism from attempts to provincialize both its desires and its failures as antimodern ideological follies.
Author | : Karen Leeder |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2016-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316462390 |
Download Rereading East Germany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. An international team of outstanding scholars offers essential and thought-provoking essays, combining a chronological and genre-based overview from the beginning of the GDR in 1949 to the unification in 1990 and beyond, with in-depth analysis of individual works. A final chapter traces the resonance of the GDR in the years since its demise and analyses the fascination it engenders. The volume provides a 'rereading' of East Germany and its legacy as a cultural phenomenon free from the prejudices that prevailed while it existed, offering English translations throughout, a guide to further reading and a chronology.
Author | : Matthias Konzett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 3105 |
Release | : 2015-05-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135941297 |
Download Encyclopedia of German Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.
Author | : Siobhan Kattago |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2001-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313074771 |
Download Ambiguous Memory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ambiguous Memory examines the role of memory in the building of a new national identity in reunified Germany. The author maintains that the contentious debates surrounding contemporary monumnets to the Nazi past testify to the ambiguity of German memory and the continued link of Nazism with contemporary German national identity. The book discusses how certain monuments, and the ways Germans have viewed them, contribute to the different ways Germans have dealt with the past, and how they continue to deal with it as one country. Kattago concludes that West Germans have internalized their Nazi past as a normative orientation for the democratic culture of West Germany, while East Germans have universalized Nazism and the Holocaust, transforming it into an abstraction in which the Jewish question is down played. In order to form a new collective memory, the author argues that unified Germany must contend with these conflicting views of the past, incorporating certain aspects of both views. Providing a topography of East, West, and unified German memory during the 1980s and the 1990s, this work contributes to a better understanding of contemporary national identity and society. The author shows how public debate over such issues at Ronald Reagan's visit to Bitburg, the renarration of Buchenwald as Nazi and Soviet internment camp, the Goldhagen controversy, and the Holocaust Memorial debate in Berlin contribute to the complexities surrounding the way Germans see themselves, their relationship to the past, and their future identity as a nation. In a careful analysis, the author shows how the past was used and abused by both the East and the West in the 1980s, and how these approaches merged in the 1990s. This interesting new work takes a sociological approach to the role of memory in forging a new, integrative national identity.
Author | : Thomas C. Fox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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An accessible and comprehensive introduction to the work of East German writers