The Novel in German since 1990.
Explores the diversity of the post-1990 novel in German through readings of international bestsellers and less familiar texts.
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Cambridge University Press,
2011
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The novel in German since 1990; The problem with the German novel; From the German novel to the novel in German; The novel in German and the present; The novel in German and the past; The transnational novel in German?; The novel in German since 1990; Notes; Chapter 1 Robert Schindel's Gebürtig (Born-Where); Post-Holocaust Jewish identity in the second generation; Variation I: speaking
- (un)inhibitedness; Variation II: writing
- coughing up; (Preliminary) finale
- fragments; Notes.
- Chapter 2 Günter Grass's Ein weites Feld (Too Far Afield)Lateness in ein weites feld; Reading late style and constructing celebrity; Günter Grass, late style and literary celebrity; Notes; Chapter 3 Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir (Heroes Like Us); History as master-narrative; Questionable historical sources; The use of language; The role of literature in writing about history; Notes; Chapter 4 Christa Wolf's Medea. Stimmen (Medea. A Modern Retelling); A post-unification parable: gender and generation; Notes; Chapter 5 Zafer Senocak's Gefährliche Verwandtschaft (Perilous Kinship); Notes.
- Chapter 6 Monika Maron's Endmoränen (End Moraines)Notes; Chapter 7 Martin Walser's Ein springender Brunnen (A Gushing Fountain); Authorial commentary
- presenting the past; Narrative perspective; 'The miracle of Wasserburg'
- realism or fantasy?; Anti-Semitism and the German-Jewish relationship; bildungsroman; The end of the novel: Johann and Wolfgang; Notes; Chapter 8 Michael Kleeberg's Ein Garten im Norden (A Garden in the North); Notes; Chapter 9 Christian Kracht's Faserland (Frayed-Land); Notes; chapter 10 Elfriede Jelinek's Gier (Greed); Gier as anti-novel.
- The natural history of destructionNotes; chapter 11 Karen Duve's Dies ist kein Liebeslied (This Is Not a Love-Song); Notes; chapter 12 Herta Müller's Herztier (The Land of Green Plums); Tereza; Life and literature; The role of Romanian; Conclusion; Notes; chapter 13 W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz; 'Feeling' the Holocaust; Matters of the heart; Notes; chapter 14 Walter Kempowski's Alles umsonst (All for Nothing); Notes; chapter 15 F.C. Delius's Mein Jahr als Mörder (My Year as a Murderer); Resistance narratives in East and West Germany; F.C. Delius's Mein Jahr als Mörder; Notes.
- Chapter 16 Yadé Kara's Selam BerlinNotes; chapter 17 Daniel Kehlmann's Die Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World); Die Vermessung der Welt; Notes; chapter 18 Günter Grass's Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (Peeling the Onion); Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
