The first postwar decade: Heinrich Boll, Wolfgang Koeppen -- Documentary literature: Alexander Kluge, Gunter Grass -- Autobiographical novels: generational discord -- Autobiographical novels: Hanns-Josef Ortheil -- The war on the Eastern front: Hermann Lenz -- Ruptures and displacements: Gert Hofmann -- Restitution of personal identity?: Alfred Andersch, Peter Hurtling, Gert Hofmann -- Speeches and controversies -- Post-unification: Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, W.G. Sebald
Summary
Examines the writings of non-Jewish West German novelists from 1949 to 1990 to explore how West Germans remember the Holocaust and handle the burden of guilt associated with it
