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Author Schlant, Ernestine

Title The language of silence : West German literature and the Holocaust / Ernestine Schlant
Published New York : Routledge, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (x, 277 pages)
Contents 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 -- Restitutionof personal identity? / Alfred Andersch, Peter Hurtling, Gert Hofmann -- Speeches and controversies -- Post-unification / Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, W.G. Sebald
Summary An analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the holocaust and its impact on post-war German society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-272) and index
Notes English
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Subject German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
German literature -- Germany (West) -- History and criticism
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Judaism and literature -- Germany (West)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
German literature
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
Judaism and literature
Literatur
Judenvernichtung
Letterkunde.
Duits.
Holocaust.
Germany (West)
Deutsch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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