Scrittura postmemoriale: memoria e trauma nei romanzi di Herta Müller

Herta Müller’s The Hunger Angel/Atemschaukel is an innovative attempt to remember and narrate traumatic experiences. The novel reads like a document and, at the same time, like fiction. Through a complex overlapping and poetic condensation of the most diverse memories, Herta Müller has created a pla...

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Main Author: Christina Vogel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca 2023-06-01
Series:Caietele Echinox
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Online Access:http://caieteleechinox.lett.ubbcluj.ro/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CaieteEchinox44-2023-p.179-188.pdf
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Summary:Herta Müller’s The Hunger Angel/Atemschaukel is an innovative attempt to remember and narrate traumatic experiences. The novel reads like a document and, at the same time, like fiction. Through a complex overlapping and poetic condensation of the most diverse memories, Herta Müller has created a place where she and her readers commemorate all those who perished or were exterminated in dictatorships, labour camps and death camps. The challenge is to keep lived memories alive by reinventing them in the process of post-memorial writing.
ISSN:1582-960X