Literackie powroty Eberharda Hilschera jako medium pamięci i pojednania
The article is an analysis of two prose works of the German writer Eberhard Hilscher: Schwiebuser Geschichten from a volume titled Meine Schwiebuser Verwandten und das polnische Mädchen, published in 2002 and the novel Die Weltzeituhr. Roman einer Epoche, which appeared in print in 1983. The object of the analysis is to examine the correlation between memory and identity. The key reminiscence in the texts studied is the experience of the loss of one’s homeland after the Second World War.
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