Journeys of Remembrance: Representations of Travel and Memory in Post-war French and German Literature

by Kathryn Jones

Overview

Journeys of Remembrance

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367604127
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kathryn N. Jones is Lecturer in French at the University of Swansea.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

1 Remembering the War Years in France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the German Democratic Republic from the Late 1950s to 1980 17

2 'A New Mode of Travel': Representations of Deportation in Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz et Après and Jorge Semprun's Le Grand Voyage 34

3 Visiting the Camps in 1960s and 1970s Travelogues by Horst Krüger, Günter Kunert, Rolf Schneider, and Peter Weiss 54

4 Fictional Representation of the Holocaust in H. G. Adler's Bine Reise and Georges Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance 73

5 Conversations with the Father in Elisabeth Plessen's Mitteilung an den Adel, Bernward Vesper's Die Reise, and Patrick Modiano's Les Boulevards de ceinture 90

6 German Origins and Exile: Évelyne Le Garrec's La Rive allemande de ma mémoire and Maren Sell's Mourir d'absence 114

Conclusion 136

Bibliography 143

Index 155