The Child's View of the Third Reich in German Literature: The Eye Among the Blind

ISBN-13: 9780199245659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 296 str.

Debbie Pinfold

Opis

This book considers how and why German authors have used the child's viewpoint to present the Third Reich. Authors as diverse as Gunter Grass, Siegfried Lenz, and Christa Wolf have all used this perspective, and this raises the question as to why it is such a popular means of confronting the Third Reich. This study asks whether it is an evasive strategy, a means of gaining new insights into the era, or a means of discovering a new language. This raises issues central to the post-war German aesthetic.
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Recenzje

What makes this study so enjoyable is its breadth of scope, reflected not just in the number of works studied, but also in the depth of analysis, the awareness of the role of the child in German literary tradition, and the extensive use of comparison with works of French and English literature ... Pinfold's outstanding book deserves a wide readership.

O autorze

Debbie Pinfold is Lecturer in German, Brasenose and Merton Colleges, Oxford