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
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).
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