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Aging and Old-Age Style in Gunter Grass, Ruth Kluger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser
Stuart Taberner
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Explores the performance of aging in the "late style" of Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser. Demographers say that by the year 2060, every seventh person in Germany will be aged eighty or older, and every third person over sixty-five. The prediction for other Western countries is scarcely different. Indeed, the aging society is seen by some as a graver threat than even global warming, with potentially unmanageable tensions relating to intergenerational relationships, work and benefits, and flows of people. This book explores the representation and performance of aging in recent "late-style" German-language fiction. It ... Read more
Explores the performance of aging in the "late style" of Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser. Demographers say that by the year 2060, every seventh person in Germany will be aged eighty or older, and every third person over sixty-five. The prediction for other Western countries is scarcely different. Indeed, the aging society is seen by some as a graver threat than even global warming, with potentially unmanageable tensions relating to intergenerational relationships, work and benefits, and flows of people. This book explores the representation and performance of aging in recent "late-style" German-language fiction. It ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571135780
SKU
V9781571135780
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Ref
99-1
About Stuart Taberner
STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
Reviews for Aging and Old-Age Style in Gunter Grass, Ruth Kluger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser
[E]xtensive . . . . Because of its clear language, meticulous textual analyses, and comprehensive bibliography [this book] is also suitable for students. In addition, [it] presents a picture of [writers of] a very specific generation whose life review allows them to come to grips with one of the central events of the twentieth century.
Karen Leeder
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