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Demographers say that by the year 2060, every seventh person in Germany will be aged eighty or older, and every third person over sixty-five. The prediction for other Western countries is scarcely different. Indeed, the aging society is seen by some as a graver threat than even global warming, with potentially unmanageable tensions relating to intergenerational relationships, work and benefits, and flows of people. This book explores the representation and performance of aging in recent "late-style" German-language fiction. It situates the authors chosen as case studies -- Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser -- in their biographical and social contexts and explores the significance of their aesthetic figuring of aging for debates raging both in Germany and internationally. In particular, the book looks at gender, generations, and trauma and their impact on how writers "narrativize" aging. Finally, it examines the "timeliness" of these different representations and late-style performances of aging in the context of the shift of social, political, and economic power away from the declining societies of the West to the ascendant societies of the East. Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the University of Leeds.
German literature --- Old age in literature. --- Aging in literature. --- Older people in literature --- History and criticism. --- Grass, Günter, --- Klüger, Ruth, --- Wolf, Christa --- Walser, Martin, --- Volf, Krista --- Ihlenfeld, Christa Margarete --- Angress, R. K. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Grass, Günter --- Грасс, Гюнтер --- גראס, גינטר, --- Ґрас, Ґюнтер --- Gras, Gi︠u︡nter --- Girās, Gūntir --- Grās, Gūntir --- گونتر، گراس, --- Aging. --- Christa Wolf. --- Germany. --- Günter Grass. --- Intergenerational Relationships. --- Late Period. --- Martin Walser. --- Old-Age Style. --- Ruth Klüger. --- Social, Political, Economic Power. --- Trauma. --- Western Countries.
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Die Literatur von Überlebenden der Shoah zeichnet sich oft durch einen kühlen, sachlichen Ton und eine luzide Nüchternheit aus. Welche Bedeutung kommt diesen Stilmerkmalen in der literarischen Auseinandersetzung der Autorinnen und Autoren mit den eigenen Erlebnissen zu? Wie lassen sich die erzählerischen und essayistischen Strategien zusammenführen? Bianca Patricia Pick legt in ihrer Untersuchung der autobiographischen und fiktionalen Texte der jüdischen Verfolgten Albert Drach, Jean Améry, Edgar Hilsenrath, Imre Kertész und Ruth Klüger ein Hauptaugenmerk auf die Deutungskategorie der Distanz als Schreibverfahren, das Züge des Sarkastischen, Grotesken, des Ressentiments und des Protokolls annimmt.
Shoah; Überlebende; Antisemitismus; Holocaust; Autobiographie; Stilmittel; Jean Améry; Albert Drach; Edgar Hilsenrath; Imre Kertész; Ruth Klüger; Sarkasmus; Ressentiment; Protokollstil; Holocaustliteratur; Literatur; Mensch; Gesellschaft; Literaturtheorie; Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft; Kulturgeschichte; Literaturwissenschaft; Survivors; Antisemitism; Autobiography; Style; Sarcasm; Protocol Style; Holocaust Literature; Literature; Human; Society; Theory of Literature; Literary Studies; Cultural History --- Albert Drach. --- Antisemitism. --- Autobiography. --- Cultural History. --- Edgar Hilsenrath. --- Holocaust Literature. --- Holocaust. --- Human. --- Imre Kertész. --- Jean Améry. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Protocol Style. --- Ressentiment. --- Ruth Klüger. --- Sarcasm. --- Society. --- Style. --- Survivors. --- Theory of Literature. --- Améry, Jean --- Drach, Albert, --- Hilsenrath, Edgar --- Kertész, Imre, --- Klüger, Ruth, --- Améry, Jean. --- Hilsenrath, Edgar. --- Criticism and interpretation.
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