Baader-Meinhof and the novel
Subtitle: narratives of the nation, fantasies of the Revolution, 1970-2010
By: Julian Preece
Series: Studies in European culture and history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780230341074
Subjects: History and criticism; Rote Armee Fraktion; Literature and society; Left-wing extremists; German fiction; In literature
Description: The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations, which had their roots in the protest movements of the late 1960s, have provided material for a great number of novels by leading German and international writers, ranging from avant-garde fiction to detective thrillers. They explore the emotional character of postwar Germany, its uneasy relationship with its own past, the Allied victors in World War Two, finance capitalism, and the authority of the state. This book is the first to examine this rich literary corpus, treating it as a political unconscious which expresses submerged anxieties and moral blind-spots in Europe's most powerful country.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.