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Scrittura postmemoriale: memoria e trauma nei romanzi di Herta Müller
Postmemorial Writing: Memory and Trauma in the Novels of Herta Müller

Author(s): Christina Vogel
Subject(s): History of ideas, Novel, German Literature
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Memory; Trauma; Post-Memorial Writing; Autofiction; Figurativeness;

Summary/Abstract: Herta Müller’s The Hunger Angel/ Atemschaukel is an innovative attempt to remember and narrate traumatic experiences. The novel reads like a document and, at the same time, like fiction. Through a complex overlapping and poetic condensation of the most diverse memories, Herta Müller has created a place where she and her readers commemorate all those who perished or were exterminated in dictatorships, labour camps and death camps. The challenge is to keep lived memories alive by reinventing them in the process of post-memorial writing.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 44
  • Page Range: 179-188
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Italian