Die Geschichte und ihre Schatten. Neuere Generationserzählungen reflektieren eine vielschichtige Vergangenheit
History and its shadows. Contemporary generational novels reflecting a complex past

Summary/Abstract: Generational narratives have proven to be a promising but also very uneven genre in the German language. This introductory article focuses on the ability of the narrative to create and recreate German and European history. In recent works, forgotten and missing knowledge is recovered, and distant times are processed imaginatively. Through its multilayered access to time, the relevant literature not only reflects on the past, but also more fundamentally, on the aesthetic representation of time and its linguistic expression.

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