This 1977 book was the first full-length of East German fiction to
appear in English. It takes as its subject the political division
of Germany into two increasingly incompatible states, and it
concentrates on East German fiction for the simple reason that West
German writers are ignorant of one of the most significant events
of modern history. After dealing with various historical,
bibliographical and cultural problems, Dr Hutchinson isolates three
narrative devices of particular value to East German writers:
creating a discriminating East German visitor to the West who
reinforces the standard image of the capitalist world; introducing
figures who are representative of each German state; and examining
the two states in terms of their relationship with the Third Reich.
A conclusion surveys changes in the literary image of Germany's
division between 1945 and 1970, and compares East German works on
the subject with the few written in the West.
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