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Article: Gedachtnis und Geschichtein Generationenromanen seit der Wende.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2007
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Gedachtnisund Geschichtein Generationenromanenseit der Wende. By Friederike Eigler. (Philologische Studien and Quellen, 192) Berlin: Schmidt. 2005. 259 pp. 39.80 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-503-07942-1.
The 'Generationenroman' is a subgenre that has become so widespread in Germany since reunification in 1990 that it might fairly be said to be the characteristic genre of the post-Wende novel. The worldwide popularity of Bernhard Schlink or W. G. Sebald suggests that the old project of 'Vergangenheitsbewaltigung' continues to concern both writers and readers, if perhaps in increasingly oblique forms. The historiographical causes for this boom are clear enough: the ageing of ...