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Between Sarmatia and Socialism: The Life and Works of Johannes Bobrowski

Between Sarmatia and Socialism: The Life and Works of Johannes Bobrowski

Wieczorek, John P.

Paperback

Literary CriticismEtymologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9042007567
ISBN13: 9789042007567
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 1 2000
Pages: 269
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Interest in Johannes Bobrowski (1917-1965) has suffered from an impression of the complexity of his works and of the narrowness of his focus: on 'The Germans and their Eastern European neighbours'. The current study re-examines aspects of Bobrowski's 'Sarmatian' works, especially their chronological development, but places them within the wider context of the whole of his oeuvre. It looks at the long period of development before he discovered his 'theme' in the early 1950s and examines his development after Sarmatische Zeit and Schattenland Ströme, seeing the volume Wetterzeichen as moving increasingly away from the past and towards more contemporary issues. His short stories and novels are related to the issues confronting him in East Germany and develop increasingly into responses to immediate poetic and social problems.
Far from being a remote and backward orientated 'Sarmatian', Bobrowski emerges as a writer attempting to communicate with a society which, he felt, threatened to ignore basic human needs and aspirations. The study makes use of material from Bobrowski's Nachla to present a figure looking for and offering patterns for orientation in his East German society, but with renewed relevance for post-unification Germany.

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