Mapping the Contours of Oppression
Subtitle: Subjectivity, Truth and Fiction in Recent German Autobiographical Treatments of Totalitarianism (Amsterdamer Publikationen ... Publikationen Zur Sprache Und Literatur)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: March 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9789042017191
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; German
First sentence: In his contribution to one of the earliest major studies of Ludwig Harig, Frank Schirrmacher was unequivocal in advocating the considerable literary and moral qualities of the author's autobiographical novel, Weh dem, der aus der Reihe tanzt (1990): 'Kein Autor ist bisher so weit gegangen in der ganz unaufgeregten, lakonischen Art der Darstellung des Dritten Reiches'.