
The Works of Jurek Becker
A Thematic Analysis
Susan M. Johnson(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 1. November 1988
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-8204-0705-0 (ISBN)
Description
Since the success of his first novel, Jakob der Lügner (1969), Jurek Becker continues to draw and puzzle literary scholars. Becker and his works elude classification. He is at once a Pole, a German, a Jew, and an Atheist. His prose has been called Holocaust, East German, and Exile literature. The consistent thematic development in his otherwise greatly varied literary achievements springs from a unique personal and political history - one that brings his reader closer to the German, as well as the human, situation in over half of this century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
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Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8204-0705-0 (9780820407050)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Contents: This work traces the themes of captivity, survival, deception, storytelling and apathy through the prose of Holocaust survivor and East German writer in exile, Jurek Becker.