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Aging and Old-Age Style in Gunter Grass, Ruth Kluger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser - The Mannerism of a Late Period (Hardcover, New)
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Aging and Old-Age Style in Gunter Grass, Ruth Kluger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser - The Mannerism of a Late Period (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Explores the performance of aging in the "late style" of Gunter
Grass, Ruth Kluger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser. Demographers
say that by the year 2060, every seventh person in Germany will be
aged eighty or older, and every third person over sixty-five. The
prediction for other Western countries is scarcely different.
Indeed, the aging society is seen by some as a graver threat than
even global warming, with potentially unmanageable tensions
relating to intergenerational relationships, work and benefits, and
flows of people. This book explores the representation and
performance of aging in recent "late-style" German-language
fiction. It situates the authors chosen as case studies -- Gunter
Grass, Ruth Kluger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser -- in their
biographical and social contexts and explores the significance of
their aesthetic figuring of aging for debates raging both in
Germany and internationally. In particular, the book looks at
gender, generations, and trauma and their impact on how writers
"narrativize" aging. Finally, it examines the "timeliness" of these
different representations and late-style performances of aging in
the context of the shift of social, political, and economic power
away from the declining societies of theWest to the ascendant
societies of the East. Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary
German Literature, Culture, and Society at the University of Leeds.
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