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To Use Fiction to Counteract Fiction. The Image of History in Marcel Beyer's Novel "Kaltenburg"

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Bobinac, Marijan. (2011). To Use Fiction to Counteract Fiction. The Image of History in Marcel Beyer's Novel "Kaltenburg". Zagreber germanistische Beiträge : Jahrbuch für Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft, 20(1). pp. 115-131. ISSN 1330-0946

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Abstract

Marcel Beyer, one of the most prominent contemporary German-language authors of historical novels, attempts to motivate his readership to independent reflections and contextualizations by producing fiction about the blind spots in newer German history. This view of the past, often characterized by distraught forms of memory, an unreliable narrator and varied other strategies of irritation, is accomplished by a thematic move towards new, so far tabooed topics from the World War II such as the bombing of Dresden, refugees and flight across Germany. The following article analyzes this poetics on the example of Beyer's last published novel – "Kaltenburg" (2008).

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Marcel Beyer; Kaltenburg; representation of history
Subjects: German language and literature
Departments: Department of German Language and Literature
Date Deposited: 21 Feb 2018 08:08
Last Modified: 21 Feb 2018 08:08
URI: http://darhiv.ffzg.unizg.hr/id/eprint/8322

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