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Trümmerliteratur redux
pp. 127-164
Abstract
when a world falls apart and overnight new and hitherto unfamiliar values come into force. When people from one day to the next are forced to look at their lives differently. … It’s the feeling of having already died once. It is the experience that wanting to begin life for a second time, as if it were the first, just doesn’t work. Because one always ends up dividing one’s life into a before and after and sees oneself in both.2
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Published in:
Williams David (2013) Writing postcommunism: towards a literature of the East European ruins. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 127-164
Full citation:
Williams David (2013) Trümmerliteratur redux, In: Writing postcommunism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 127–164.