The Child's View of the Third Reich in German Literature: The Eye among the Blind
ISBN: 9780191697487
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
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Subjects: Literature;

This book considers how and why German authors have used the child's viewpoint to present the Third Reich. Authors as diverse as G�nter 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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