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020 $a9780521192378 (hardback)
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050 00 $aPT772$b.N66 2011
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245 04 $aThe novel in German since 1990 /$cedited by Stuart Taberner.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
300 $aviii, 309 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"Diversity is one of the defining characteristics of contemporary German-language literature, not just in terms of the variety of authors writing in German today, but also in relation to theme, form, technique and style. However, common themes emerge: the Nazi past, transnationalism, globalisation, migration, religion and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and identity. This book presents the novel in German since 1990 through a set of close readings both of international bestsellers (including Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring the World and W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz) and of less familiar, but important texts (such as Yade; Kara's Selam Berlin). Each novel discussed in the volume has been chosen on account of its aesthetic quality, its impact and its representativeness; the authors featured, among them Nobel Prize winners Günter Grass, Elfriede Jelinek and Herta Müller demonstrate the energy and quality of contemporary writing in German"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 284-301) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: the novel in German since 1990 Stuart Taberner; 2. Robert Schindel's Gebürtig (Born-Where) Helmut Schmitz; 3. Günter Grass's Ein weites Feld (Too Far Afield) Rebecca Braun; 4. Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir (Heroes Like Us) Anna Saunders; 5. Christa Wolf's Medea: Stimmen (Medea: A Modern Retelling) Georgina Paul; 6. Zafer Şenocak's Gefa;hrliche Verwandschaft (Perilous Kinship) Moray McGowan; 7. Monika Maron's Endmora;nen (End Moraines) Katharina Gerstenberger; 8. Martin Walser's Ein springender Brunnen (A Gushing Fountain) Kathrin Schödel; 9. Michael Kleeberg's Ein Garten im Norden (A Garden in the North) Stephen Brockmann; 10. Christian Kracht's Faserland (Frayed-Land) Julian Preece; 11. Elfriede Jelinek's Gier (Greed) Helen Finch; 12. Karen Duve's Dies ist kein Liebeslied (This is Not a Love-Song) Alison Lewis; 13. Herta Müller's Herztier (The Land of Green Plums) Lyn Marven; 14. W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz Mary Cosgove; 15. Walter Kempowski's Alles umsonst (All for Nothing) Karina Berger; 16. F. C. Delius's Mein Jahr als Mörder (My Year as a Murderer) Anne Fuchs; 17. Yade; Kara's Selam Berlin Petra Fachinger; 18. Daniel Kehlmann's Die Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World) Stuart Taberner; 19. Günter Grass's Beim Ha;uten der Zwiebel (Peeling the Onion) Monika Shafi; Works cited; Index.
650 0 $aGerman fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aGerman fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aGerman fiction$zEurope, German-speaking$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / General$2bisacsh.
700 1 $aTaberner, Stuart.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/92378/cover/9780521192378.jpg