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Contemporary German Fiction: Writing in the Berlin Republic

By Stuart Taberner

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780521860789, 0521860784
Open Library ID
OL22756249M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5307905 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in German
Edition
1
Pages
267\267
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

The profound political and social changes Germany has undergone since 1989 have been reflected in an extraordinarily rich range of contemporary writing. Contemporary German Fiction focuses on the debates that have shaped the politics and culture of the new Germany that has emerged from the second half of the 1990s onwards and offers the first comprehensive account of key developments in German literary fiction within their social and historical context. Each chapter begins with an overview of a central theme, such as East German writing, West German writing, writing on the Nazi past, writing by women and writing by ethnic minorities. The authors discussed include GГјnter Grass, Ingo Schulze, Judith Hermann, Christa Wolf, Christian Kracht and Zafer Senocak. These informative and accessible readings build up a clear picture of the central themes and stylistic concerns of the best writers working in Germany today.

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