| Title: | Identität, Familie und Geschichte oder das Scheitern der sozialistischen Utopie |
| Author: | Filomena Viana Guarda |
| Publication: | Temeswarer Beiträge zur Germanistik, 10, p. 197 |
| p-ISSN: | 1453-7621 |
| Publisher: | Mirton Verlag |
| Place: | Temeswar |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | In the German literary landscape of the last decade, the re-emergence of the family novel, both biographical and fictional, should be related to the huge interest in „memory studies since the early 1990s. Brought into the microcosm of the family circle the difficult German history seems to be more easily understood and through the literary mediation easily transformed into cultural memory (A. Assmann). This article examines Eugen Ruge’s debut novel In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts (2011) as a good example of this literary trend. Attention will also turn to the transformation of familial and collective history into memory and it will focus on the way it is done: without „nostalgie“ and full of subtle humor. |
| Key words: | family novel, cultural memory, East German history, generational transmission |
| Language: | German |
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