Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 546 g
The Eye Among the Blind
Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 546 g
Reihe: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
ISBN: 978-0-19-924565-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford
This book examines the ways in which German authors have used the child's perspective to present the Third Reich. It considers how children at this time were brought up and educated to accept unquestioningly National Socialist ideology, and thus questions the possibility of a traditional naive perspective on these events. Authors as diverse as Günter Grass, Siegfried Lenz, and Christa Wolf, together with many less well-known writers, have all used this
perspective, and this raises the question as to why it is such a popular means of confronting the enormity of the Third Reich. This study asks whether this perspective is an evasive strategy, a means of gaining new insights into the period, or a means of discovering a new language which had not been tainted by
Nazism. This raises and addresses issues central to a post-war aesthetic in German writing.
