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- Identität, familie und geschichte oder das scheitern der sozialistischen utopiePublication . Guarda, Filomena Viana, 1958-In the German literary landscape of the last decade, the re-emergence of the family novel, both biographical and fictional, should be related to the huge interest in “memory studies” since the early 1990s. Brought into the microcosm of the family circle the difficult German history seems to be more easily understood and through the literary mediation easily transformed into cultural memory (A. Assmann). This article examines Eugen Ruge’s debut novel In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts (2011) as a good example of this literary trend. Attention will also turn to the transformation of familial and collective history into memory and it will focus on the way it is done: without “nostalgie” and full of subtle humor.
- Die übel unserer zeit: überlegungen zu Juli Zehs roman SpieltriebPublication . Guarda, Filomena Viana, 1958-Juli Zeh, a German author born in the seventies with a doctorate in International Law, is a very good observer of contemporary Western society, whose social reality she questions in her literary writing. This paper considers her second novel Spieltrieb published at the beginning of the new millennium (2004), and focuses on the violence depicted there, which is perpetrated by the young fictional characters. Zeh’s fictional world of cruelty and moral emptiness nis examined here, confronting it with Zygmunt Bauman’s sociological view of modern European society (Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds, 2003). While the Polish sociologist explains how consumerism and globalization are affecting human life and transforming the nature and meaning of our relationships, the German woman writer is determined to convey a complex fictional picture of our disenchanted modern world. This helps us advance our understanding of today’s society and forces a reflection on the critical function Juli Zeh assigns to literature.