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Der Band analysiert Schriftsteller als intellektuelle Figuren des
oeffentlichen Diskurses. Die erste Sektion widmet sich der
Entstehung des Begriffs und der Theorie des Intellektuellen seit
Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. In der zweiten werden Schriftsteller als
Intellektuelle wahrend des Kalten Krieges in ihren konkreten Rollen
gezeigt: sie enthalt Studien uber die intellektuellen Folgen des
Stalinismus in der DDR, die beiden deutschen PEN-Zentren, die
Entstehung des 'Engagement'-Begriffs in West- und Ostdeutschland
und uber herausragende einzelne Autoren wie Johannes R. Becher und
Kasimir Edschmid.
What began in 1921 as an amicable dining club in London is today
the only international writers' association in existence. The
present volume is an institutional history of the West German PEN
club from the division of the all-German centre in 1951 to the
reunification of Germany in 1990. The study concentrates on
literary sociology and draws on conversations and ample archive
material to outline the development from an elitist 'drawing-room
society' in the 1950s to the prestigious and representative club
that had emerged from this by the 1980s. It portrays the PEN club
in all its involvements with the historical events of the age, its
achievements, its self-image, and its self-delusions, personified
by the club's protagonists from Kdstner, Edschmid, Neumann, and
Bvll to Jens, Gregor-Dellin, and Amery. The history of the Federal
Republic is eloquently reflected in the history of this fellowship
of writers and the responses of its leading intellectuals to the
Cold War, the building of the Wall, the Spiegel affair, the year
1968, and German unification. But frequently the really intriguing
insights afforded by a close history of the PEN club derive not so
much from analysis of the zeitgeist or of major historical events
but reside in the illuminating, sometimes micro-historical details.
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