Erica Pedrettis „Harmloses, bitte“ against the forgetting of the World War II Cover Image

Erica Pedrettis „Harmloses, bitte“ im Widerstand gegen das Vergessen des Zweiten Weltkrieges
Erica Pedrettis „Harmloses, bitte“ against the forgetting of the World War II

Author(s): Justyna Kłopotowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego

Summary/Abstract: Erica Pedretti, one of the most sophisticated, contemporary writers and artists from Switzerland, shaped by the traumatic memories of the World War II, is focused in her autobiographical writing on the possibility of the 'mentioning' of the past. In this way it is possible to obtain images of both, her personal history and the fate of her family, as well as contemporary history. This paper is an attempt to analyze her debut work „Harmloses, bitte“ (1970) which returns to the past as a broken thought, fragment and reveals the struggle with the expressing of the painful experiences

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 123-139
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: German