num_pages: 133
description: Essays on the Fiction of Kazimierz Brandys, Danilo Kis, György Konrád and Christa WolfAll four writers living in socialist societies are engaged in searching for ways to preserve and express their personal and national identities and, at the same time, retain European values. As opposed to their western colleagues, these writers concede that in their countries literature has to take on all kinds of extraliterary roles. In other societies these may belong to the fields of sociology or in the socialist world it is prose literature that has to do the job. They all feel the responsibility of the literati and, therefore, write corrective ficiton. Their books are books with a message--a political message--one which is expected of them internally and abroad. The works under discussion are all Bildungsromane , but in them the characters learn, or rather relearn life's meaning as adults.CONTENTSIntroductionM. D. Birnbaum and R. Trager-VerchovskyA Polemics with Kazimierz Brandys' RondoAleksandar FlakerHistory and Human Relationships in the Fiction of Danilo KisMarianna D. BirnbaumDanilo Kis' Encyclopedia of the DeadPredrag MatvejeviThe Tropics of Love and Loyalty in György Konrád's The LoserMarianna D. BirnbaumOn Christa Wolf's CassandraRudolf G. Wagner
language: English
title: History: Another Text
titlecomplete: History: Another Text
publisher: Michigan Slavic Publications