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Writing Postcommunism - Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins (Hardcover)
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Writing Postcommunism - Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins (Hardcover)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
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Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the
Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary
evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have
marked the postcommunist twilight. With particular reference to the
writings of Croatian emigre Dubravka Ugresic, and those of Milan
Kundera, Clemens Meyer, Ingo Schulze, Jachym Topol, Christa Wolf,
and others, it is argued that a significant body of postcommunist
literature is underpinned and scarred by the semantic field of
ruins: melancholia and nostalgia, presence and absence, pride and
shame, and not least, remembering and forgetting. Taken together,
the writings considered suggest a post-1989 'literature of the
ruins', an amorphous, anti-formative framework that also
dramatically illuminates the post-1989 ruins of east European
literature itself - what remains when, as Gyorgy Konrad put it,
'something is over'.
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