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Karl Krolow and the Poetics of Amnesia in Postwar Germany (Hardcover)
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Karl Krolow and the Poetics of Amnesia in Postwar Germany (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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New view of the prominent German poet, with new research on his
activities during the Nazi period and his pre-1945 poetry. Karl
Krolow (1915-1999) was one of the most prominent German poets of
the second half of the twentieth century. The sharply distinct
phases of Krolow's work reflect the phases of German postwar poetry
in general, giving his work arepresentative stature for the period;
and his production as one of Germany's leading poetry critics is
almost as impressive. Yet his poetry, despite its prominence, its
stylistic facility, and his prolific output, has surprisingly not
received sustained critical attention. This study locates for the
first time the hidden thread that runs through Krolow's work: his
uneasy relationship to the recent German past. During the entire
period of Germany's gradual and often painful "coming to terms"
with the Nazi regime, the war, and the Holocaust, Krolow engaged
his technical virtuosity as a poet in a stunning avoidance of
historical content, both Germany's and his own. He never addressed
publicly his own activities in the Third Reich and during the war:
this study fills in that gap and examines for the first time, with
new historical research and documentation, his life during the Nazi
period and his literary production before 1945, a body of work that
has never before received any critical evaluation or even
acknowledgment. With this new foundation, Neil Donahue presents
Krolow's career from a wholly new perspective and provides a new
foundation for future consideration of his work and of postwar
German poetry in general. In so doing, Donahue presents in sum, but
overturns, decades of Krolow criticism which, begun on a false
footing, missed the real historical depth in his poems: the depth
of avoidance. Neil H. Donahue is professor of German and
Comparative Literature at Hofstra University.
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