Keith Bullivant Livres

The opening up, and subsequent tearing down, of the Berlin Wall in 1989 effectively ended a historically unique period for Europe that had drastically changed its face over a period of fifty years and redefined, in all sorts of ways, what was meant by East and West. For Germany in particular this radical change meant much more than unification of the divided country, although initially this process seemed to consume all of the country's energies and emotions. While the period of the Cold War saw the emergence of a Federal Republic distinctly Western in orientation, the coming down of the Iron Curtain meant that Germany's relationship with its traditional neighbours to the East and the South-East, which had been essentially frozen or redefined in different ways for the two German states by the Cold War, had to be rediscovered. This volume, which brings together scholars in German Studies from the United States, Germany and other European countries, examines the history of the relationship between Germany and Eastern Europe and the opportunities presented by the changes of the 1990's, drawing particular attention to the interaction between the willingness of German and its Eastern neighbours to work for political and economic inte-gration, on the one hand, and the cultural and social problems that stem from old prejudices and unresolved disputes left over from the Second World War, on the other.

This volume provides an excellent introduction to the modern and contemporary novel in German-speaking countries and the work of novelists such as Günter Grass, Heinrich Böll, Martin Walser and Christa Wolf.

An Krisen mangelt es dem 20. Jahrhundert nicht. Aber die historischen Realien erzwingen nicht, wie sie wahrgenommen werden. Wenn wir von > ErfahrungWahrnehmungklassischen ModerneEntscheidungDie RättinStörfallGermany in Autumn< ADELSON, L. A.: Touching Tales of Turks, Germans, and Jews: Cultural Alterity, Historical Narrative, and Literary Riddles for the 1990s JAKOBI, C.: Die Krise der Theorie. Zum epistemologischen Bruch in Hans Magnus Enzensbergers Essayistik ROSELLINI, J. J.: Landser und Literaten: Zur Krise des absoluten Pazifismus REINHOLD, U.: Krisenerfahrung und Krisenverarbeitung in der erzählenden Literatur seit 1990 HIELSCHER, M.: Kritik der Krise. Erzählerische Strategien der jüngsten Gegenwartsliteratur und ihre Vorläufer

The future of German literature, like the future of united Germany, is a fascinating and vigorously debated question. In this first English-language study on the subject, Keith Bullivant analyses the main aspects of German literature since 1945 from the perspective of the 1990s. He pays particular attention to the periodisation of the literature, the major developments in the 1980s, the social role of writers as intellectuals, and the treatment of the 'German Question'.

Examines the works of contemporary German writers and the changing contexts of German literature from the 1960s to the 1970s.