Die Wiedergeburt der verlorenen Heimat aus dem Geist des Romans. Der Schriftsteller Horst Bienek und Schlesien als synästhetischer Grenzraum
The rebirth of lost homeland through the narrative of the novel. The writer Horst Bienek and Silesia as synesthesia-based borderline

Summary/Abstract: The essay deals with synesthetic constructions of spatial borderlines in the works of Horst Bienek. As an analysis of his novels, poems and essays shows, Bienek’s writing can be understood as a creative approach to history. The recording of history makes it possible to give presence to a time that is lost, and it also reveals the events of the first half of the 20th century through the reflection of individual experience. Bienek’s novels and poems about Gliwice can be described as a part of a culture of memory, which is both subjective memory, and a representative recording of history. His synesthesia-based aesthetic offers the possibility of revivifying Upper Silesia – the lost homeland of Horst Bienek.

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