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Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe: Siegfried Von Vegesack and Werner Bergengruen

Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe: Siegfried Von Vegesack and Werner Bergengruen

Housden, Martyn

Hardcover

Series: Making Sense of History, Book 50

Biographies GeneralLiterary CriticismBaltic History

ISBN10: 1836953143
ISBN13: 9781836953142
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jan 1 2026
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The lived experiences of two authors, Siegfried von Vegesack and Werner Bergengruen, provide a fascinating lens into the reality of migration and identity in twentieth-century Europe. Forced to leave their Baltic homeland and forge new lives in Germany, both authors contended with life under the Nazi regime and the social upheaval that took place after its fall. In this illuminating examination of the relationship between migration and literature, Martyn Housden interrogates how the experience of displacement informed the authorship of each figure. By charting how their writing interpolated the period's many ruptures, this study offers an unrivalled insight into the complexities of identity and nationhood in a conflict-torn continent.

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