Landmarks in the German Novel (2) (Paperback, New edition)

The nine essays in this volume deal with major achievements in the German novel since 1959. They range from the very well known, such as Brussig's Helden wie wir, an extravagant treatment of life under the Stasi and the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the much more recondite, such as Hubert Fichte's Detlevs Imitationen "Grunspan", one of the first, and most important, products of the abolition of the discrimination against gays in 1969. What is most surprising about this collection is that, in contrast to the majority of successful novels written in German before 1959, only one of these is by a clearly 'West' German author: Hubert Fichte. There is, by contrast, a surprising number who have their roots in the GDR (Plenzdorf, Wolf, Brussig, Schulze), or in Austria (Bachmann, Bernhard). This is also a period in which women writers emerge powerfully (Bachmann, Wolf, and OEzdamar). Virtually all these novels aroused controversy in some quarters at the time of their publication, often for their treatment of semi-taboo, or at least uncomfortable, subject-matter. These essays, all by specialists in the relevant field, were originally delivered as lectures in the University of Cambridge.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Britische und Irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur / British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature, 47
Release date:	December 2009
First published:	2010
Editors:	Peter Hutchinson • Michael Minden
Dimensions:	220 x 150 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	168
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-911566-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	3-03-911566-9
Barcode:	9783039115662

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