Some authors strongly criticized attempts to rebuild a German
literary culture in the aftermath of World War II, while others
actively committed themselves to "dealing with the German past."
There are writers in Austria and Switzerland that find other
contradictions of contemporary life troubling, while some find them
funny or even worth celebrating. German postwar literature has, in
the minds of some observers, developed a kind of split personality.
In view of the traumatic monstrosities of the previous century that
development may seem logical to some. The Historical Dictionary of
Postwar German Literature is devoted to modern literature produced
in the German language, whether from Germany, Austria, Switzerland
or writers using German in other countries. This volume covers an
extensive period of time, beginning in 1945 at what was called
"zero hour" for German literature and proceeds into the 21st
century, concluding in 2008. This is done through a list of
acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a
bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries
on writers, such as Nobel Prize-winners Heinrich Boll, Gunter
Grass, Elias Canetti, Elfriede Jelinek, and W. G. Sebald. There are
also entries on individual works, genres, movements, literary
styles, and forms."
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