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Author Schlant, Ernestine, author.

Title The language of silence : West German literature and the Holocaust / Ernestine Schlant.

Publication Info. London : Routledge/Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 270 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents First postwar decade: Heinrich Boll, Wolfgang Koeppen -- Documentary literature: Alexander Kluge, Gunter Grass -- Autobiographical novels: generational discord -- Autobiographical novels: Hanns-Josef Ortheil -- War on the Eastern front: Hermann Lenz -- Ruptures and displacements: Gert Hofmann -- Restitution of personal identity?: Alfred Andersch, Peter Hurtling, Gert Hofmann -- Speeches and controversies -- Post-unification: Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, W.G. Sebald.
Summary Examines the writings of non-Jewish West German novelists from 1949 to 1990 to explore how West Germans remember the Holocaust and handle the burden of guilt associated with it.
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Subject Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)
German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
German literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject German literature -- Germany (West) -- History and criticism.
Germany (West)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
Judaism and literature -- Germany (West)
Judaism and literature.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Schlant, Ernestine. Language of silence 0415922194 (DLC) 98041108
ISBN 9780415922197
9781135961817 electronic book
1135961816 electronic book