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Article: Between Sarmatia and Socialism: The Life and Work of Johannes Bobrowski.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Between Sarmatia and Socialism: The Life and Work of Johannes Bobrowski. By JOHN P. WIECZOREK. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur, 139). 1999. xi + 269 pp. 25.50 [pounds sterling].
Johannes Bobrowski's works have been interpreted for at least thirty years as esoteric, complex in style and restricted in their focus on the relationship between Germans and their East European neighbours. His evocation of a distant Sarmatian past, still detectable in a landscape scarred with invasions and local feuds, is examined here chronologically and as an essential stage in his search for self-identity within the German Democratic ...