Article: Christoph Meckel. Suchbild: Meine Mutter.(Book Review)

Christoph Meckel. Suchbild: Meine Mutter. Munich. Hanser. 2002. 124 pages. 14.90 [euro]. ISBN 3-446-20219-6

CHRISTOPH MECKEL (b. 1935) has long been a figure of importance in contemporary German letters both for his poetry and his fiction and also as a Doppeltalent for his equally prolific production as a graphic artist. Nevertheless, he is most widely known for his probing memoir Suchbild: Uber meinen Vater (1980), which so aptly and intelligently captured the mixed emotions of his postwar generation, the mood of elegiac yet angry resentment and rejection, in trying to understand the actions or inactions of the parents during the Third Reich and World War II. ...

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