| «Eine Rechnung, Die Nicht Aufgeht»: Identity and Ideology in the Fiction of Wolfdietrich Schnurre Contributor(s): Kraft, Herbert (Editor), Roberts, Ian (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631311206 ISBN-13: 9783631311202 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $74.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 823 |
| LCCN: 97024804 |
| Series: Historisch-Kritische Arbeiten Zur Deutschen Literatur, |
| Physical Information: 258 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Wolfdietrich Schnurre is best known as the writer of deceptively simple post-war "Kurzgeschichten," but the truth is far more complex. The tension between the wish to confront personal guilt and the desire to reclaim an ideologically compromised past gave rise to a unique body of work. Schnurre repeatedly returned to a nucleus of autobiographical events, applying to them a range of literary styles and ideologies, in order to lay the past to rest and to rediscover a lost sense of identity. The present study traces his thematic and narrative development throughout a fifty-year literary career, encompassing the collapse of National Socialism, the Cold War and the growing political and economic success of the Federal Republic. Schnurre, as presented here, becomes a representative figure, both of a generation and of a nation's sensibility. His work stands as a fascinating testimony to Germany's struggle with its Nazi past. |
