| Title: | Der Nobelpreis für Literatur: Atemschaukel |
| Authors: | Roxana Nubert, Ana-Maria Dascălu-Romițan |
| Publication: | Temeswarer Beiträge zur Germanistik, 10, p. 33 |
| p-ISSN: | 1453-7621 |
| Publisher: | Mirton Verlag |
| Place: | Temeswar |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | The novel Atemschaukel of the Nobel laureate in literature, Herta Müller, was designed along with the writer Oskar Pastior, who had the same fate as that of the protagonist of the novel, Leo Auberg. Herta Müller continues with her masterpiece the tradition of the great Russian writers (Tschechow, Solchenizyn, Schalamow or Sinjiawski), who described in their works the horrors of labor camps in Russia and in the Soviet Union. It is remarkable in this novel the first disclosure of the tragedy of the Germans in Romania, who were sent to forced labor in the Soviet Union in the period 1945-1950. The paper examines the inhuman living and working conditions which the Saxon deportees faced in an Ukrainian labor camp, culminating in a permanent state of hunger. Thus, Herta Müller’s novel completes the model created in modern literature by Franz Kafka (Ein Hungerkunstler), Knut Samsun (Hunger) and Samuel Beckett (Molloy). |
| Key words: | gulag, extermination, forced labor, hunger, fear, German speaking literature in Romania, Herta Müller |
| Language: | German |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 1
| 0 | Lorette Brădiceanu | Der Hunger in der Literatur – Versuch einer Klassifizierung | TBG, 12, 311 | 2015 |
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