Märchenhafte Elemente und kulturkritische Aspekte in Heinrich Federers Kurzprosatexten "Wie Bruder Klaus lesen lehrt" und "Vater und Sohn im Examen"
Fairy-Tale Elements and Their Sociocritical Function in Short Stories by Heinrich Federer: "How Bruder Klaus Teaches to Read" and "Father and Son at the Exam"

Author(s): Marzena Górecka
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: social criticism; short stories; fairy-tale genre; society and culture of modernity; Catholic writer
Summary/Abstract: Heinrich Federer was a Swiss writer whose short stories were bestsellers. The sociocritical aspect of his short prose is discussed in the article, drawing upon two of his stories. The analysis is intended to show that in his social criticism Federer uses means of expression and categories typical of the fairy-tale genre, such as contradictions or dreams. In the first text the author sketches the idyllically situated hermitage of the uneducated title protagonist, standing in opposition to the outside world.

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