Erinnerung im Gepäck. Maxim Billers Roman Sechs Koffer
Recollection of the Luggage. The Novel Sechs Koffer by M. Biller

Summary/Abstract: In the essay entitled Recollection of the Luggage, the Novel „Sechs Koffer” by M. Biller , the author concentrates on the method of the construction of the tale that comprises six stories, communicated by six persons and an auctorial narrator who becomes a first person narrator. In an attempt to reconstruct the family history ‒ the narrator tries to solve mysterious circumstances of the death of the family senior ‒ the six variants of the story, told and remembered from six different perspectives, follow. In the novel, in addition to the reconstruction of the recollections, metaphorically placed in six coffers, a real luggage is also important: the story of the Russian Jewish family becomes a figure of the emigrant’s destiny and the belongings taken in the coffers make the emigration acceptable. The central point of the article and the key problem of the tale is the remaining question of the technique of remembrance and reconstruction of the recollections.

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